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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1998
Arun Chandra, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing artificial intelligence for assessing a course of medical treatment. The method and system achieve their objects related to assessing a course of medical treatment by providing a data-processing system programmed to do at least the following: define a course of medical treatment, and calculate an assessment of the defined course of medical treatment. The defined course of medical treatment can include surgical intervention. Calculating the assessment of the defined course of medical treatment can include calculating the risks associated with surgical intervention. Calculating the risks associated with the surgical intervention can include defining surgical paths to a brain tumor and calculating the risks associated with the defined surgical paths to the brain tumor. Calculating the risks associated with the surgical paths to the brain tumor can include associating a probabilities with brain regions and determining whether the brain regions, with which the probabilities have been associated, are intersected by the surgical paths, and thereafter calculating risks based upon the probabilities associated with the brain regions intersected. Associating probabilities with brain regions can include defining functional regions within the brain, subdividing the functional regions into subregions, and associating risk-of-damage probabilities with each of the subregions such that a higher probability indicates a concomitant loss of function of functional areas within the brain.