Sistema Experto como Herramienta de Apoyo en el Diagnóstico de Enfermedades

Abstract

Expert systems are a branch of artificial intelligence that emulates human reasoning. It is made Up of a set of components, including an inference engine and a knowledge base. The expert systems are developed for specific well-defined domains achieving better results than humans. the expert systems act as assistants and complex auxiliaries of great utility, providing effective help in those jobs that requires precision, speed and high knowledge for decision making. On medicine field, expert systems are being used as a support tool for the diagnosis of diseases. In this article we present a case an study of a prototype of an expert system to support the diagnosis of chronic kidney diseases and the urinary tract. The prototype built of the expert system is based on an architecture of software applications to perform different functions ranging from the development of the graphical interface for interaction with the user, the reasoning engine, the construction of the knowledge base obtained from experts in urology and nephrology. The prototype is designed to support the work of general medicine, in the first stage of patient screening in the hospitals' offices before referring it to a specialist. The system recommends a diagnosis according to the symptoms presented by the patient. The prototype is currently in the testing phase. At the end of the article, the results of the proposed work are presented.