Vitamins and Minerals Diagnosis System Using Neural Network

摘要

In today's fast paced lifestyle nutritional balance of the body is of utmost importance. The essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals are the powerhouses of the body. The nutritional value of vitamins and minerals has resulted in the need to maintain optimum levels of vitamins and minerals. So as to facilitate people's health, it is crucial to maintain their balanced levels in the body. Deficiency of the vitamins and minerals can be determined in the early stages itself using science field of artificial intelligence through expert systems. In the same way by knowing the exact symptoms we can determine which vitamins and minerals are deficient or excess in the body. Based on testing performed it can be proved that the expert system built is able to diagnose the deficiency of vitamins and minerals with a value of more than 60 percent accuracy, the truth. By knowing alterations the levels of minerals and vitamins, prevention can be done in a timely fashion. As well as by knowing the exact general symptoms it is to find out the deficiency of vitamins and minerals in the body. After every method of diagnosis it gives the appropriate medicines and suggestions for the appropriate diet according to that. Application of expert system is able to facilitate community in diagnosing early vitamin deficiencies that can save time, costs, and makes it easy for the user.