Decision support system for the diagnosis of schizophrenia disorders

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

D. Razzouk²  J.j. Mari²  I. Shirakawa²  J. Wainer¹  D. Sigulem¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina Departamento de Psiquiatria

关键词: Clinical decision support systems;    Artificial intelligence;    Decision making;    Expert systems;    Schizophrenia;    Medical informatics;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-879X2006000100014

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Clinical decision support systems are useful tools for assisting physicians to diagnose complex illnesses. Schizophrenia is a complex, heterogeneous and incapacitating mental disorder that should be detected as early as possible to avoid a most serious outcome. These artificial intelligence systems might be useful in the early detection of schizophrenia disorder. The objective of the present study was to describe the development of such a clinical decision support system for the diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SADDESQ). The development of this system is described in four stages: knowledge acquisition, knowledge organization, the development of a computer-assisted model, and the evaluation of the system's performance. The knowledge was extracted from an expert through open interviews. These interviews aimed to explore the expert's diagnostic decision-making process for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. A graph methodology was employed to identify the elements involved in the reasoning process. Knowledge was first organized and modeled by means of algorithms and then transferred to a computational model created by the covering approach. The performance assessment involved the comparison of the diagnoses of 38 clinical vignettes between an expert and the SADDESQ. The results showed a relatively low rate of misclassification (18-34%) and a good performance by SADDESQ in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, with an accuracy of 66-82%. The accuracy was higher when schizophreniform disorder was considered as the presence of schizophrenia disorder. Although these results are preliminary, the SADDESQ has exhibited a satisfactory performance, which needs to be further evaluated within a clinical setting.

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