Thyroid disorders: Automatic diagnosis in CONSULT I

✍ Scribed by James M. Fattu; Edward A. Patrick; William Sutton

• Book ID: 103050590
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 684 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4825
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4825(82)90032-4

✦ Synopsis

Automatic diagnosis of thyroid diseases is implemented on CONSULT ITM, a microcomputer system based on the Patrick model for computer-assisted diagnosis in medicine. The thyroid 'subsystem' consists of 19 classes (diseases) and 16 features (signs, symptoms, laboratory tests). For 76 test cases obtained from patient records (recognition samples), the 'true' class (disease) is decided in the highest 'probability' number in 89% of cases and in the differential diagnosis in 100% of cases. Performance is compared to physicians. Estimation of class-conditional probability densities utilizing equivalence regions in the feauture space is discussed. Thyroid diseases Pattern recognition Computer medical diagnosis CONSULT ITM Equivalence regions Bayes framework