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  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Medical Informatics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Current medical diagnostic systems often rely on static, general rules, limiting adaptability to new circumstances.
  • Challenges in medical terminological interoperability hinder data exchange, analysis, and interpretation.
  • Heterogeneous and changeable diagnostic criteria, including symptoms with semantic and linguistic variations, complicate early detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a flexible, standard, and early medical diagnostic system.
  • To address limitations of static diagnostic rules and improve medical terminological interoperability.
  • To integrate semantic reasoning and fuzzy inference for dynamic and intelligent decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a medical diagnostic system integrating ontology semantics reasoning and fuzzy inference.
  • Utilized dynamic decision rules for enhanced interpretability, dynamism, and intelligence in evaluating symptoms and complications.
  • Applied the system to the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset for a real-world case study.

Main Results:

  • The proposed system demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related conditions.
  • Achieved diagnostic accuracies of 97.2% for AD, 95.4% for Late Mild Cognitive Impairment (LMCI), 94.8% for Early Mild Cognitive Impairment (EMCI), 93.1% for Significant Memory Concern (SMC), and 96.3% for Cognitively Normal (CN).

Conclusions:

  • The novel system effectively enhances early medical diagnosis through semantic reasoning and fuzzy logic.
  • The integration of ontology and fuzzy inference provides a dynamic and intelligent approach to medical decision-making.
  • The system shows significant potential for accurate and early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.