Medical diagnosis and artificial neural networks: a medical expert system applied to pulmonary diseases

An original medical expert system (MES) in the field of pulmonary diseases (PDs), is the topic of this article. This MES covers the full spectrum of PDs, being the first that attempts to treat a whole category of distressed body organs. It is based on a first presented composition of powerful artificial neural networks (ANNs) that have been taught by means of real patients' clinical data,. The proposed MES exhibits an overall performance of at least 85% in its generalization results. >