Fuzzy sets and the modelling of physician decision processes, part I: The initial interview-information gathering session

Application of fuzzy sets for assisting the physician's model of functional impairments in human locomotion

“…The system consisted of ADXL330 iMEMS ® accelerometer (Analog Devices Inc.) and 12-bits analog to digital converter A/D Figure 4 (A, C, E) depicts the functional aggregation mapping between the GRFs within the gait cycle, according to Equation (1). This mapping is in view of the CP patient.…”

“…This aggregative relation helps to identify the degree of disability (severity) and possibly, the outcome of therapeutic intervention. Figure 5 (A, C, E) depicts the functional aggregation mapping between the GRFs within the gait cycle, according to Equation (1). This mapping corresponds to Fig.…”

“…This requires adequate knowledge of the patient and disease characteristics that determine functional outcome. The process of diagnosis involves the collection and evaluation of pertinent information at various intermittent stages [1][2][3]. Such information, obtained through discussion, observation, and tests, is significant to the convergence upon effective preliminary and final diagnosis.…”

The Fuzzification of Systems

“…164 Neumann was headed back to Princeton, where he was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Goldstine was traveling to Philadelphia, where the ENIAC had been created to calculate rocket trajectories and target intercept data for the army. 165 164 Neumann was hired as a part-time advisor by the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen. As an expert on theoretical hydrodynamics, he compiled calculations concerning the behavior of the shock waves of explosions as well as ballistics tables.…”

“…His task was to discover the patterns produced by the explosions of German underwater mines. His shock wave calculations would also prove to be important when he joined the atom bomb project in Los Alamos in 1943 165 The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic digital computer. It was built under the direction of electrical engineers John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly at the Moore school in of the development of this "electron computer", which was supposed to perform 333 multiplications per second, von Neumann was so interested that just a few days later -probably on August 7, 1944 -he was standing in front of this (not yet completed) computer.…”