Breast Decisions: Recommender System for Appearance Counseling about Breast Reconstruction.

ABSTRACT: Appearance counseling is an important component of the consent process for breast reconstruction. The purpose of appearance counseling is to help the patient form realistic expectations of what she might look like after breast reconstruction. In this article, we introduce a recommender system, "BreastDecisions," for appearance counseling that suggests photographs of previous patients that are tailored to a specific patient to help her form realistic expectations of her own reconstruction.

Methods

We present user specifications and algorithm parameters needed to incorporate the recommender system into the appearance counseling workflow. We demonstrate the system for a common counseling scenario using a knowledgebase of previous breast reconstruction patients. The medical appropriaten

SUBMITTER: Nicklaus KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9633089 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature