DEVICE FOR PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF PATIENT WHO UNDERGO PEG-OPERATION, METHOD FOR PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WHO UNDERGO PEG OPERATION AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

摘要

The present invention provides a device for predicting prognosis of a patient who undergoes PEG, which allows a doctor to obtain predictive results sufficient to judge whether or not to perform the PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) for the patient. This device includes: a prognosis prediction expression storage section 14 that stores a prognosis prediction expression, the prognosis prediction expression being calculated by applying prediction input factors and prediction output factors about a first patient who already underwent the PEG, to ANN (artificial neural network); and a processing section 16 that inputs diagnosis input factors about a second patient, for judging whether or not to perform the PEG on the second patient, calculates diagnosis output factors in response to the diagnosis input factors by referring to the prognosis prediction expression stored in the prognosis prediction expression storage section and then outputs the calculated diagnosis output factors.