Medical diagnosis as a linguistic game.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We present a formalized medical knowledge system using a linguistic approach combined with a semantic net.

Method

Diseases are defined and coded by natural linguistic terms and linked via a complex network of attributes, categories, classes, lists and other semantic conditions.

Results

We have isolated more than 4600 disease entities (termed pathosoms using a made-up word) with more than 100.000 attributes sets (termed pathophemes using a made-up word) and a semantic net with more than 140.000 links. All major-medical thesauri like ICD, ICD-O and OPS are included.

Conclusions

Memem7 is a linguistic approach to medical knowledge approach. With the system, we performed a proof of concept and we conclude from our data that our or similar approaches prov

SUBMITTER: Fritz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5504712 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature