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Medical diagnosis as a linguistic game

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Title
Medical diagnosis as a linguistic game
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12911-017-0488-3
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Peter Fritz, Andreas Kleinhans, Florian Kuisle, Patricius Albu, Christine Fritz-Kuisle, Mark Dominik Alscher

Abstract

We present a formalized medical knowledge system using a linguistic approach combined with a semantic net. Diseases are defined and coded by natural linguistic terms and linked via a complex network of attributes, categories, classes, lists and other semantic conditions. We have isolated more than 4600 disease entities (termed pathosoms using a made-up word) with more than 100.000 attributes sets (termed pathophemes using a made-up word) and a semantic net with more than 140.000 links. All major-medical thesauri like ICD, ICD-O and OPS are included. Memem7 is a linguistic approach to medical knowledge approach. With the system, we performed a proof of concept and we conclude from our data that our or similar approaches provides reliable and feasible tools for physicians given a formalized history taking is available. Our approach can be considered as both a linguistic game and a third opinion to a set of patient's data.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 2 11%
Lecturer 2 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 11%
Other 1 6%
Student > Master 1 6%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 8 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 3 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Social Sciences 1 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 10 56%
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