MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE METHOD

摘要

The invention is from the field of assistance in establishing a medical diagnosis and relates to a method for assisting in establish a diagnosis for a patient on the basis of at least one identified sign by relying on a computerized knowledge base comprising a medical ontology. The medical ontology includes: a list of signs, forming a "sign" class, a list of medical conditions, forming a "medical condition" class, and a first set of logical relationships between the signs and the medical conditions, each logical relationship establishing a correlative link between a sign and a medical condition. The method according to the invention includes: a step (503) of searching for medical conditions linked at least to one of the signs identified by means of the first set of logical relationships, and a step (504) of identifying potential signs, in which, for each potential medical condition, all the signs linked by a correlative link to said potential medical condition are identified by means of the first set of logical relationships.