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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2017

Medical diagnosis as a linguistic game.

Peter Fritz, Andreas Kleinhans, Florian Kuisle, Patricius Albu, Christine Fritz-Kuisle, Mark Dominik Alscher

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter FritzDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany.
Andreas KleinhansDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Auerbachstrasse 110, D-70376, Stuttgart, Germany.
Florian KuisleDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Auerbachstrasse 110, D-70376, Stuttgart, Germany.
Patricius AlbuDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Auerbachstrasse 110, D-70376, Stuttgart, Germany.
Christine Fritz-KuisleKlinikum Günzburg, Abteilung für Anästhesie, Günzburg, Germany.
Mark Dominik AlscherDepartment of General Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Auerbachstrasse 110, D-70376, Stuttgart, Germany. Dominik.Alscher@rbk.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-1211
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe present a formalized medical knowledge system using a linguistic approach combined with a semantic net.

methodDiseases are defined and coded by natural linguistic terms and linked via a complex network of attributes, categories, classes, lists and other semantic conditions.

resultsWe have isolated more than 4600 disease entities (termed pathosoms using a made-up word) with more than 100.000 attributes sets (termed pathophemes using a made-up word) and a semantic net with more than 140.000 links. All major-medical thesauri like ICD, ICD-O and OPS are included.

conclusionsMemem7 is a linguistic approach to medical knowledge approach. With the system, we performed a proof of concept and we conclude from our data that our or similar approaches provides reliable and feasible tools for physicians given a formalized history taking is available. Our approach can be considered as both a linguistic game and a third opinion to a set of patient's data.

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Knowledge BasesMedical Informatics ApplicationsTerminology as TopicHumansDisease entityFormalized medical knowledgeLinguistic gameMedical data base

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