A Proposed Model for Health Management and Expert Diagnosis System for the Prediction of Common Diseases for Ethiopia (East Africa)

International Journal of Medical Science

© 2018 by SSRG - IJMS Journal

Volume 5 Issue 2

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : Mohammed Yesuf Getu and Husain Shahnawaz

10.14445/23939117/IJMS-V5I2P101

How to Cite?

Mohammed Yesuf Getu and Husain Shahnawaz, "A Proposed Model for Health Management and Expert Diagnosis System for the Prediction of Common Diseases for Ethiopia (East Africa)," SSRG International Journal of Medical Science, vol. 5,  no. 2, pp. 1-9, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23939117/IJMS-V5I2P101

Abstract:

Many rural & pastoral communities in Ethiopia have extremely limited access to medical advice. People are traveling long distances to avail medical facilities, and there is a shortage of medical experts in most of the health institutions. This results in slow service, and ends up waiting long hours without receiving any attention for the patient. Expert on particular diseases is also not available at the health centers, in that case, patients are misdiagnosed and abused medically. Hence medical expert systems can play a significant role in such scenarios where medical experts are not readily available. This work presents the patients registration system and design of a knowledge-based expert system that aims to provide the prediction of the diseases to the patients and medical advisors to expedite their non-surgical diagnostic system.

Keywords:

Expert Diagnosis system, Prediction system, Common diseases, Support Vector Machine, Symptoms and signs of diseases.

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