Method and system for assessing risks and prognoses of a given course of medical treatment

摘要

A method and system for providing artificial intelligence for assessing a course of medical treatment. The method and system achieve their objects related to assessing a course of medical treatment by providing a data-processing system programmed to do at least the following: define a course of medical treatment, and calculate an assessment of the defined course of medical treatment. The defined course of medical treatment can include surgical intervention. Calculating the assessment of the defined course of medical treatment can include calculating the risk or risks associated with surgical intervention. Calculating the risk or risks associated with the surgical intervention can include defining one or more surgical paths to a brain tumour and calculating the risk or risks associated with the one or more defined surgical paths to the brain tumour. Calculating the risk or risks associated with the one or more surgical paths to the brain tumour can include associating a probability with at least one brain region and determining whether the at least one brain region, with which the at least one probability has been associated, is intersected by the at least one surgical path, and thereafter calculating a risk based upon the probability associated with the at least one brain region intersected. Associating at least one probability with at least one brain region can include defining at least one functional region within the brain, subdividing the at least one functional region into one or more subregions, and associating a risk-of-damage probability with each of the one or more subregions such that a higher probability indicates a concomitant loss of function of the at least one functional area within the brain.