Method for prediction and diagnosis of medical conditions

• Main Authors: EMMANUEL C IFEACHOR, VIKTORIYA STALBOVSKAYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.02.2009
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

A method of characterising a medical condition (e.g. tumour, ovarian cancer) of a subject comprises the steps of a) providing a set of symptom data for the subject, the set of symptom data comprising at least one result of an analysis xi, conducted on the subject; b) calculating a diagnostic coefficient DCi for each result of an analysis xi; c) calculating an importance factor Ji for each result of an analysis xi; d) specifying an acceptable level of error in the characterisation; e) determining the thresholds for the diagnostic coefficients DCi using the error level specified in step (d) and defining a threshold range there between: f) compare the value of the diagnostic coefficient DCi of the analysis x, with the highest importance factor Ji , DCimax with the thresholds determined in step (e); g) successively sum the diagnostic coefficient DCimax with the diagnostic coefficient DCi having the next highest importance factor Ji until the value of the sum lies outside the threshold range defined in step (e); and h) identify the threshold exceeded in step (g). The method preferably comprises the step of converting continuous data in the symptom data set into discrete data such as binary data.