Medical Ontology

From dandi08

Andrew Walsh, Brandon Schaefer and Jazmine Patsula plan on creating an application that uses an ontology in order to either:

a) diagnose a disease/condition based on user input such as symptoms, specific measurements, and other relevant information (occupation, hobbies, income level, whatever). If we're feeling really ambitious, we could add in functions like b) in this list, or even go so far as suggesting treatments for the disease. We would probably also narrow our scope down to one category of disease (say, infectious disease), though even that may be too broad. Overall, this option is the most appealing to us.

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b) use path-similarity functions to, when given a disease, display more diseases ranked on their overall similarity to the original diagnosed disease. As I said in class, the idea here would be to prevent some House, M.D., kind of situations where the first diagnosis is not correct and instead a much less-common (and infrequently remembered by doctors) is the real culprit.