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ARBITER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND ADVICE

  • US 20090007924A1
  • Filed: 04/30/2008
  • Published: 01/08/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computerized arbiter method utilized during an evaluation session in a medical diagnostic system having a computing device, the method comprising:

  • asking general questions associated with a list of candidate diseases of a patient using a high level mode of inquiry by use of a user interface associated with a computing device;

    selecting a set of most likely diseases based on the responses to the general questions;

    asking questions focused on the set of most likely diseases using a middle level mode of inquiry;

    selecting a most likely disease based on the responses to the questions from the middle level of inquiry; and

    asking questions focused on the most likely disease using a low level mode of inquiry,wherein a sequence of questions corresponds to one of a plurality of evaluation strategies, wherein the set of most likely diseases is divided into one class that is allowed to vote for the next best question which is to be asked of the patient or into another class that is not allowed to vote for the next best question, wherein the diseases that are in the class that cannot vote for the next best question add a weight to a disease score, the weight corresponding to a response for a question asked by another disease, and wherein questions are asked until a goal of the evaluation session has been reached.

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