[Automated complex diagnosis and choice of treatment method in benign prostatic hyperplasia]

The paper deals with rational choice of conservative and surgical treatment of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), based on an automatic diagnostic approach and realization of four stages of a logistic model of choice of BPH treatment policy with individual features of the status of urological patients being borne in mind. The procedure was tested in 72 patients from a Voronezh regional clinical hospital of the South-Western Railway, in 92 patients from a Voronezh regional clinical treatment-and-diagnosis center. The values of informative parameters were obtained on the basis of computer-aided patients' self-testing, results of baseline examinations, up-to-date non-invasive studies of the prostate: urofluometry, ultrasound bilocation, MR tomography, etc. The findings lead to the conclusion that integration of computer technologies and up-to-date medical equipment is promising for enhancing the quality of diagnosis and treatment of BPH.