Ma, Jixin, Pandey, Sanjib Raj and Lai, Choi-Hong ORCID: 0000-0002-7558-6398 (2015) Development of decision support system for the diagnosis of arthritis pain for rheumatic fever patients: Based on the fuzzy approach. Journal of Algorithms and Computational Technology, 9 (3). pp. 265-290. ISSN 1748-3018 (Print), 1748-3026 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1260/1748-3018.9.3.265)

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Abstract

Developing a Decision Support System (DSS) for Rheumatic Fever (RF) is complex due to the levels of vagueness, complexity and uncertainty management involved, especially when the same arthritis symptoms can indicate multiple diseases. It is this inability to describe observed symptoms precisely that necessitates our approach to developing a Decision Support System (DSS) for diagnosing arthritis pain for RF patients using fuzzy logic. In this paper we describe how fuzzy logic could be applied to the development of a DSS application that could be used for diagnosing arthritis pain (arthritis pain for rheumatic fever patients only) in four different stages, namely: Fairly Mild, Mild, Moderate and Severe. Our approach employs a knowledge-base that was built using WHO guidelines for diagnosing RF, specialist guidelines from Nepal and a Matlab fuzzy tool box as components to the system development. Mixed membership functions (Triangular and Trapezoidal) are applied for fuzzification and Mamdani-type is used for the fuzzy reasoning process. Input and output parameters are defined based on the fuzzy set rules.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Decision Support System, Fuzzy Reasoning
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Faculty of Engineering & Science
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2022 13:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/16884

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