Patent ID: 9589231
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06N,G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A method for diagnosis assistance comprising: receiving a request for a query from a requester, the query request including a new medical case; embedding the new medical case in an embedding space in which a set of existing medical cases and a set of experts are embedded; providing for the requester to select from a plurality of query types including a query-for-cases and a query-for-experts; when the query-for-cases is selected, returning a subset of the cases based on a computed similarity between the embedded new case and the embedded existing cases; and when the query-for-experts is selected, returning a subset of the experts based on a computed similarity between the embedded new case and the embedded experts wherein at least one of the embedding, providing, returning the subset of the cases, returning the subset of the experts, and computing the query cost are performed with a computer processor.