New Diagnosis Approach for Early Detection of Intractable Diseases

摘要

There are many people who are struggling againstintractable diseases in the world. In general, it takes a long time to cure the intractable diseases because it is difficult to make diagnoses and to cure such diseases. There may be also people who are struggling against unclassified diseases that we have not discovered yet. Though, in Japan, methods for curing 56 intractable diseases have been studied, methods for discovering the unclassified diseases have not been studied. This paper proposes a new system that supports users for thinking new criteria for the unclassified diseases. We propose this system as one of the new diagnosis approach for early detection of intractable diseases. A user of the system inputs names of classified diseases to use the system. The system chooses 20 names from the inputs and show them to the user on its visualizing interface. The user chooses some names of disease whose diagnostics are similar to each other, and makes a group of the diseases. After making groups of diseases, if the user vacillates which group is appropriate for names of disease, the user writes the names and the reasons why the user has vacillated. The system outputs the reasons as candidates of new criteria for classifying unclassified diseases. We experimented the proposed system. Though six doctors majoring eye, hematology, and psychiatry used the proposed system, we obtained new criteria for unclassified diseases only from eye doctors. We validated the efficiency of the system for specific doctors.