A Fuzzy Differential Diagnosis of Headache

  • Kim, Young-Hyun (Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Soon-Ki (Department of Statistics, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Oh, Sun-Young (Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Ahn, Jeong-Yong (Division of Mathematics and Statistical Informatics(Institute of Applied Statistics), Chonbuk National University)
  • Published : 2007.04.30

Abstract

Headache is one of the most common reasons for neurological consultation. Headache as many causes and symptoms. Therefore, screening method using questionaire is helpful in diagnosis of headache. This paper is to propose a medical diagnostic method to grasp patient's diseases using the relations between symptoms and diseases. For this purpose, we develop an interview chart assigned IF(intuitionistic fuzzy) grade with the relation among symptoms and three labels of headache. The method can be used to classify patient's tone of diseases with certain degrees of belief and its concerned symptoms.

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