Frequency Decision Theoretical Approach to Automated Medical Diagnosis

Abstract

The recent availability of relatively large memory capabilities associated with high speed computers has given hope to the possibility of combating some of the obvious deleterious results of disparate growth rates of medical knowledge, numbers of physicians, and numbers of patients. The purpose of this investigation is to establish a method for arriving at a preliminary medical diagnosis by the use of computer techniques before the patient is seen by the physician. It appears, however, that the serendipitous result of discovering more insight into the diagnostic process may be of greater medical significance than the proposed reason for the study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 07, 1966
Accession Number
AD1027657

Entities

People

  • George E. Goldman
  • Leonard Rubin
  • Morris F. Collen

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Computers
  • Data Reduction
  • Digestive System Processes
  • Disease Attributes
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Errors
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases
  • Health Services
  • Heart Diseases
  • Intestinal Diseases
  • Mathematical Models
  • Medical Personnel
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Statistics
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
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