Hyper-fractionation of transmission history for medical diagnostic software
First Claim
1. A method of discriminating among a plurality of candidate diseases, comprising identifying a set of parameters representative of component transmission mechanisms through which a disease may be transmitted, collecting a transmission history consisting of information about presence or absence of disease in family members or others nearby, specifying component transmission mechanisms associated with respective ones of the one or more candidate diseases, fractionating the transmission history to identify the presence or absence of a component transmission mechanism, and computing a probability of expecting a transmission history given presence or absence of the respective component transmission mechanisms.
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Abstract
The difficulties in incorporating transmission history into medical diagnostic software are non-obvious. These are addressed here with systems and methods for hyper-fractionation of transmission history in a way that allows the full power of this information to be used in medical diagnostic software.
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10 Claims
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1. A method of discriminating among a plurality of candidate diseases, comprising
identifying a set of parameters representative of component transmission mechanisms through which a disease may be transmitted, collecting a transmission history consisting of information about presence or absence of disease in family members or others nearby, specifying component transmission mechanisms associated with respective ones of the one or more candidate diseases, fractionating the transmission history to identify the presence or absence of a component transmission mechanism, and computing a probability of expecting a transmission history given presence or absence of the respective component transmission mechanisms.
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9. A computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for directing a data processing system to implement a method of discriminating among a plurality of candidate diseases, the instructions comprising the steps of
identifying a set of parameters representative of component transmission mechanisms through which a disease may be transmitted, collecting a transmission history consisting of information about presence or absence of disease in family members or others nearby, specifying component transmission mechanisms associated with respective ones of the one or more candidate diseases, fractionating the transmission history to identify the presence or absence of a component transmission mechanism, and computing a probability of expecting a transmission history given presence or absence of the respective component transmission mechanisms.
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10. A data processing apparatus for discriminating among a plurality of candidate diseases, comprising
means for identifying a set of parameters representative of component transmission mechanisms through which a disease may be transmitted, means for collecting a transmission history consisting of information about presence or absence of disease in family members or others nearby, means for specifying component transmission mechanisms associated with respective ones of the one or more candidate diseases, means for fractionating the transmission history to identify the presence or absence of a component transmission mechanism, and means for computing a probability of expecting a transmission history given presence or absence of the respective component transmission mechanisms.
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