The diagnostic process in psychotherapy using the aesthetic evaluation is described in this article. Unlike the classical diagnostic process, which presents a result of comparing clinicians´ observations with a diagnostic system (DSM, ICD, etc.), the aesthetic evaluation is a pre-reflexive, embodied, and preverbal process. A Gestalt Therapy theoretical frame is used to introduce a concept of th...

background: the initial step in the diagnostic investigation of male infertility has been traditionally based on the conventional seminal profile. however, there are significant limitations regarding its ability to determine the underlying mechanisms that cause the disorder. sperm dna fragmentation has emerged as a potential causative factor of reproductive failure and its assessment has been s...

We present a diagnostic evaluation platform which provides multi-factored evaluation based on automatically constructed check-points. A check-point is a linguistically motivated unit (e.g. an ambiguous word, a noun phrase, a verb~obj collocation, a prepositional phrase etc.), which are pre-defined in a linguistic taxonomy. We present a method that automatically extracts check-points from parall...

Citation: Bonadonna F and Killian JM (2015) A Knowledge-Based System for Evaluation of CIDP Diagnostic Criteria in a Database with 26,000 Nerve Conduction Studies: Computer-Aided Creation of Heuristic Rules and Discovery of New Diagnostic Criteria. Front. ICT 2:26. doi: 10.3389/fict.2015.00026 A Knowledge-Based System for Evaluation of CIDP Diagnostic Criteria in a Database with 26,000 Nerve Co...