HIROFILOS: a medical expert system for prostate diseases
Constantinos M. Koutsojannis, Maria Tsimara, Eman Nabil · Computational intelligence · 2008
Prostate gland diseases, including cancer are estimated to be one of the leading cause of male death worldwide and its management is based on guidelines regarding diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and continuing care. In this study a fuzzy expert system for diagnosing, and learning purpose of the prostate diseases is described. HIROFILOS is a fuzzy expert system for diagnosis and treatment of prostate diseases according to symptoms that are realized in one patient and usually recorded through his clinical examination as well as specific test results. The user-friendly proposed intelligent system is accommodated on a hospital web page for use as a decision support system for resident doctors, as an educational tool for medical students, as well as, an introductory advisory tool for interested patients. It is based on knowledge representation provided from urology experts in combination with rich bibliographic search and study ratified with statistical results from clinical practice. Preliminary experimental results on a real patient hospital database provide an acceptable performance that can be improved using more than one computational intelligence approaches in the future. Key-Words: Prostate disease, , urology, medical expert system, fuzzy logic.