Title: Increasing the level of certainty in medical diagnosis. Using AHP/ANP with compatibility index G in support of medical diagnosis

Authors: Claudio Garuti; Mario Sandoval

Addresses: Fulcrum Ingenieria Ltd., Luis Thayer Ojeda, 0180 Of.1004, Santiago, Chile ' 110SHC (Sport Health Center), National Commission of Ergonomy (Chile), El Rodeo 12.699, L-7, Santiago, Chile

Abstract: This paper is based on the development of a web-based tool, in support of medical decision making called medical sapiens (MS), oriented to improve diagnostic accuracy and diminishing the uncertainty of the initial diagnosis. It has been developed for four years working with several senior physicians from Medicine Faculty of Los Andes University, and is currently being installed in a public hospital and in a private sport centre in Santiago in its testing mode. The results of this work show that medical certainty grows up significantly when applying this new approach for the diagnosis issue, mainly due to its better way of coping to intrinsic complexity.

Keywords: medical diagnosis; certainty levels; weighted environment; AHP; analytical hierarchy process; ANP; analytical network process; compatibility index G; proximity measures; profiles; pattern recognition; medical decision making; diagnostic accuracy; diagnosis uncertainty; medical certainty; intrinsic complexity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2016.075755

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2016 Vol.8 No.2, pp.142 - 162

Received: 06 May 2015
Accepted: 25 Oct 2015
Published online: 01 Apr 2016 *

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