Patent ID: 9002769
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for supporting a clinical diagnosis, comprising: a) receiving, by a processor, semantically annotated initial symptom data for a patient indicating, for each of a plurality of initial symptoms, a determination of whether that initial symptom is present in the patient or absent from the patient; b) determining, by the processor, by querying and reasoning in a disease-symptom knowledge model, at least one likely disease for each of the plurality of initial symptoms indicated as present in the patient according to the received initial symptom data; c) mapping, by the processor, the plurality of initial symptoms onto a set of said likely diseases; d) determining, by the processor, for each disease of said set of likely diseases a plurality of associated symptoms, the associated symptoms being associated to a respective disease of said set of likely diseases in said disease-symptom knowledge model; e) for each disease of said set of likely diseases, categorizing, by the processor, each of the plurality of associated symptoms of the respective disease into one of the following disjoint categories by mapping each associated symptom corresponding with the respective disease with the plurality of initial symptoms, f) displaying, at a user interface, likely diseases in the context of said categories of associated symptoms, including displaying, for each likely disease, an indication of whether each associated symptom of that disease has been categorized as an existing symptom, an absent symptom, or an open symptom based on the initial symptom data for the patient.