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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Remote Diagnosis on Upper Respiratory Tract Infections Based on a Neural Network with Few Symptom Words-A Feasibility Study.

Chung-Hung Tsai, Kuan-Hung Liu, Da-Chuan Cheng

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Chung-Hung TsaiInstitute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan.
Kuan-Hung LiuSchool of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan.
Da-Chuan ChengDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-7955-9234

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TAINAN MUNICIPAL AN-NAN HOSPITAL-CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY ANHRF111-05
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aims explore the feasibility of using neural network (NNs) and deep learning to diagnose three common respiratory diseases with few symptom words. These three diseases are nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory infection, and bronchitis/bronchiolitis. Through natural language processing, the symptom word vectors are encoded by GPT-2 and classified by the last linear layer of the NN. The experimental results are promising, showing that this model achieves a high performance in predicting all three diseases. They revealed 90% accuracy, which suggests the implications of the developed model, highlighting its potential use in assisting patients' understanding of their conditions via a remote diagnosis. Unlike previous studies that have focused on extracting various categories of information from medical records, this study directly extracts sequential features from unstructured text data, reducing the effort required for data pre-processing.

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deep learningGPT-2 modelnatural languageremote diagnosissymptom words

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PMID38337845
PMCPMC10855815

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