INTRODUCTION Decision making in the health care system - specifically with regard to diagnostic imaging investigations - occurs at multiple levels. Professional role players from various backgrounds are involved in making these decisions, from the point of referral to the outcomes of the imaging investigation. The aim of this study was to map the decision-making processes and pathways involved ...

Title of Document: A DIAGNOSTIC DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SELECTING BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN URBAN/SUBURBAN WATERSHEDS Yan Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Dr. Hubert J Montas, Fischell Department of Bio-Engineering Dr. Kaye L. Brubaker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Best Management Practices (BMPs) have become the most effective way to mitigate the non-po...

Application of knowledge discovery in databases (data mining) for medical decision support is discussed in this work. The aim of the study was to use decision support algorithm for the differential diagnosis of intraocular tumors using parameters from eye images obtained by the ultrasound examination. Application of predictive modeling algorithm for decision tree formation using See5.0/C5.0 dat...

The launch of the NIA-AA research criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis illustrates the large advances that have been made in the field of AD diagnosis. These new possibilities however also introduce new dilemmas into the consulting room, and this provides room for shared decision making (SDM). SDM refers to clinicians and patients (and/or their caregivers) working together to decide ...

Some of the technical difficulties could be overcome in the group of patients under 40 years old whose pressures were in the upper 20s and 30s but who had a normal disc. Dr. Spaeth had investigated about 500 cases and felt he had reasonable technical results in about one out of three of the patients with established glaucoma in the older age groups. He also felt that there should be at least a ...

BACKGROUND The number of trained specialists world-wide is insufficient to serve all children with pediatric rheumatologic disorders, even in the countries with robust medical resources. We evaluated the potential of diagnostic decision support software (DDSS) to alleviate this shortage by assessing the ability of such software to improve the diagnostic accuracy of non-specialists. METHODS Us...

Main Clinical Manifestation (MCM)-oriented diagnosis starts with a chief problem and reasons about possible diagnoses that can be manifested in that way. The reasoning process often starts by considering abstract diagnosis groups (e.g., infectious vs. non-infectious diarrhea) and refines them. Most existing diagnostic decision-support systems (DSSs) are not specially tailored toward assisting n...

To cope with the complexity of today’s digital systems in diagnostic modelling, hierarchical approaches should be used. In this paper, the possibilities of using Decision Diagrams (DD) for diagnostic modelling of digital systems are discussed. DDs can be used for modelling systems at different levels of representation like logic level, register transfer level, instruction set level. The nodes i...