Fred G wrote:
Thanks guys for all the feedback.
re Jim's comments: I completely agree that the difference b/t "slight" fever
and "returning" fever, etc will pose some problems. My hunch is that
initially I'll just do something like make "fever" be the only one for now
Any qualitative rating s
> a) How's the best way to make it so I can have a user type in a list of
> symptoms and then have the computer tell the user the possible diseases that
> share those symptoms?
Good question. The first decent idea that came to mind was searching
through a cartesian join of all diseases & symptom
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Fred G wrote:
> Thanks guys for all the feedback.
> re Jim's comments: I completely agree that the difference b/t "slight" fever
> and "returning" fever, etc will pose some problems. My hunch is that
> initially I'll just do something like make "fever" be the only
"Fred G" wrote
re Steve's comments: hmm, sounds like I really should take an AI
class.
This problem is just really exciting and driving me, and I'm glad
you
pointed out that this will probably take a lot more time than I had
predicted.
I assume you know that there are several commerial pac
Thanks guys for all the feedback.
re Jim's comments: I completely agree that the difference b/t "slight" fever
and "returning" fever, etc will pose some problems. My hunch is that
initially I'll just do something like make "fever" be the only one for now
w/ the obvious caveat that a few more dise
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Fred G wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
> decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
> pretty stuck on a few things.
>
> I've built a file that contains a list of many d
Fred G wrote:
Hello--
I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
pretty stuck on a few things.
Essentially what you want is to build an expert system. I don't want to
discourage you, bu
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Fred G wrote:
> Hello--
> I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical
> decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am
> pretty stuck on a few things.
> I've built a file that contains a list of many diseas
I would start by getting a lot of the parameters you need in a database such
as SQLite (comes with python).
So for example, you would have a disease with known symptoms. You could
structure your tables with diseases symptoms
So, say the disease is a cold in the table you will have a row for cold
