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Patent No.:

US 10515073 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2017

Decision-support application and system for medical differential-diagnosis and treatment using a question-answering system

Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sugato Bagchi, White Plains, NY (US);

David A. Ferrucci, Wilton, CT (US);

Anthony T. Levas, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Erik T. Mueller, Chevy Chase, MD (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorney:

Rakesh Roy

Primary Examiner:

Joseph D Burgess

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); G16H 10/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/532 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2018.01); G06Q 50/22 (2018.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); G16H 70/00 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24522 (2019.01); A61B 5/00 (2013.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.02); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 16/2428 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 16/532 (2019.01); G06F 16/90335 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 17/2235 (2013.01); G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01); G06F 19/325 (2013.01); G06N 5/027 (2013.01); G06Q 50/22 (2013.01); G16H 10/20 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); G16H 70/00 (2018.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); Y02A 90/22 (2018.01); Y02A 90/26 (2018.01);
Abstract

A decision-support system for medical diagnosis and treatment comprises software modules embodied on a computer readable medium, and the software modules comprise an input/output module and a question-answering module. The method receives patient case information using the input/output module, and generates a medical diagnosis or treatment query based on the patient case information and also generates a plurality of medical diagnosis or treatment answers for the query using the question-answering module. The method also calculates numerical values for multiple medical evidence dimensions from medical evidence sources for each of the answers using the question-answering module and also calculates a corresponding confidence value for each of the answers based on the numerical value of each evidence dimension using the question-answering module. The method further outputs the medical diagnosis or treatment answers, the corresponding confidence values, and the numerical values of each medical evidence dimension for one or more selected medical diagnosis or treatment answers using the input/output module.

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