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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2013
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Ching-hua Chen-ritzo, New York, NY (US);
Rick A. Hamilton, Ii, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Jianying HU, Bronx, NY (US);
Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, New York, NY (US);
Rick A. Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Jianying Hu, Bronx, NY (US);
Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A DeepQA engine is enhanced to provide a digital medical investigation tool which assists a medical professional in researching potential causes of a set of patient conditions, including clues, facts and factoids about the patient. The DeepQA engine provides one or more answers to a natural language question with confidence levels for each answer. If a confidence level falls below a threshold, the enhanced DeepQA engine performs a crowd sourcing operation to gather additional information from one or more domain experts. The domain expert responses are provided to the medical professional, and are learned by the enhanced DeepQA system to provide for better research of similar patient conditions in future queries.