SOCIAL MEDICAL NETWORK FOR DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE

摘要

A method for diagnosis assistance exploits similarity between a new medical case and existing medical cases and experts when embedded in a common embedding space. Different types of queries are provided for, including a query-by-cases and a query-by-experts. These may be associated with different cost structures that encourage the requester to use the query-by-cases first and seek expert assistance if this proves unsuccessful. Depending on whether the query-by-cases or query-by-experts is requested, a subset of the existing cases or experts is identified based on the similarity of their representations, in the embedding space, with a representation of the new case in the embedding space. There may then be provision for communicating the new case to a selected one or more of the subset of experts for the expert to attempt to provide a diagnosis.

主权项

1. A method for diagnosis assistance comprising:
receiving a request for a query from a requester, the query request including a new medical case; embedding the new medical case in an embedding space in which a set of existing medical cases and a set of experts are embedded; providing for the requester to select from a plurality of query types including a query-for-cases and a query-for-experts; when the query-for-cases is selected, returning a subset of the cases based on a computed similarity between the embedded new case and the embedded existing cases; and when the query-for-experts is selected, returning a subset of the experts based on a computed similarity between the embedded new case and the embedded experts.