Title :
A Mathematical Description of Physician Decision Making
Author :
Niknam, Kaiser ; Niknam, Sahar
Author_Institution :
Biomed. Res. Inst., Shahrud
Abstract :
This paper presents a mathematical model describing how the physicians actually make a diagnostic decision. Next to a description of diagnostic decision making as done by the physicians, this paper shows that how can we design and develop a new approach to medical diagnosis based on the human principles of decision making. The model was challenged to diagnose a series of actual patients. Real clinical data was entered into the model and the system produced a ranked list of possible diagnoses for each case. The results indicated good performance when compared with internist´s diagnosis. The proposed method is effective and can be applied to describe medical reasoning as done by the physicians.
Keywords :
decision making; patient diagnosis; diagnostic decision; medical diagnosis; medical reasoning; physician decision making; Bayesian methods; Biomedical measurements; Decision making; Diseases; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy reasoning; Fuzzy sets; Mathematical model; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1747-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1748-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2008.141