Evaluation for the Necessity of Medical Imaging Tests Prescription in Neurology

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018 Jul:2018:4021-4024. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513299.

Abstract

The evaluation and control algorithms for the necessity of medical prescription testing, comprises useful tool for health professionals. It is beyond doubt that a connection between illness, symptoms, medical tests and prescriptions is essential and thus algorithms facilitating such approaches should be available to health professionals. Such informatics tools require the implementation of smart, interactive tools and not just linear, information storing websites. Such algorithms should be dynamic, that is their output should change based on the input as for example, in the serial input of symptoms to clinical examination to subsequent diagnosis. Slight variations in symptomatology can greatly alter diagnosis and subsequent physical testing and prescription. The present work presents a novel algorithm for the control of medical prescription testing in neurology, by utilizing decision trees for the connection of symptomatology to diagnosis and prescription for neurological conditions and disease. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that such an approach is proposed.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Decision Trees
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Neurology*