Classification of Asthma Utilizing Integrated Software Suite

摘要

The aim of this study was to investigate problems in detecting and diagnosing asthma and based on it, to develop method for classification of asthma. This method is implemented through integrated software suite developed to assist physicians in the analysis and interpretation of pulmonary function test results to improve detection, diagnosis and treatment of asthma. The software determines and classifies the asthma based on fuzzy rules and trained neural network. More than one thousand report samples were used for training data. A total of 289 patients, previously diagnosed with asthma or normal lung conditions by physicians, were tested with this tool. The software performed the classification of patients with asthma in 97.22% and with normal lung function in 98.61% cases in concordance with physician's report.