Automated diagnostic system and method
First Claim
1. A method of automated diagnosis or management of a medical condition, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of disease objects, each disease object associated with a plurality of symptom objects; and
assigning a weight for each symptom, wherein a particular disease object may include a preferred weight for one or more preferred symptoms and an alternative weight for one or more alternative symptoms, wherein the alternative symptoms are selected from a set of archived symptom objects that are available for reuse.
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Abstract
Structure-based processing includes a method of diagnosing diseases that works by arranging diseases, symptoms, and questions into a set of related disease, symptom, and question structures, such as objects or lists, in such a way that the structures can be processed to generate a dialogue with a patient. A structure-based processing system organizes medical knowledge into formal structures and then executes those structures on a structure engine to automatically select the next question. Patient responses to the questions lead to more questions and ultimately to a diagnosis.
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9 Claims
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1. A method of automated diagnosis or management of a medical condition, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of disease objects, each disease object associated with a plurality of symptom objects; and
assigning a weight for each symptom, wherein a particular disease object may include a preferred weight for one or more preferred symptoms and an alternative weight for one or more alternative symptoms, wherein the alternative symptoms are selected from a set of archived symptom objects that are available for reuse. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An automated diagnostic system comprising a plurality of objects which interact to determine the diagnosis of a patient, wherein the objects include at least one of:
- a disease object, a symptom object, a valuator object, a question object, a node object and a candidates object.
- View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. An automated diagnostic system comprising a plurality of objects, wherein the objects include at least a plurality of disease objects and a plurality of symptom objects, and wherein at least some of the objects perform their own tasks and call upon other objects to perform their tasks at the appropriate time.
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