This study employs the framework of web services in conjunction with Bayesian theorem to construct a web-services-based medical decision support system for diagnosis. The purpose is to help users (physicians) with issues pertinent to medical diagnosis decisions. Users through the system key in available prior probability and through computation based on Bayesian theorem obtain more accurate dia...

Medical administrative and diagnosis procedures require the retrieval of patient diagnosis history before treatments and drug administration. This involves careful checking of the patient past record which might be stored electronically or in paper files. This process is tedious, time consuming and often prone to error. The need to reduce error in patient administrative and diagnosis process ha...

OBJECTIVE Multiple barriers to quality health care may affect the outcomes of postacute treatment for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). This study examined rehospitalization for medical and surgical inpatients with and without a comorbid diagnosis of SMI which included psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder and major depression. METHODS We examined hospital discharge records for m...

Introduction The diagnosis and separation of cancerous tumors in medical images require accuracy, experience, and time, and it has always posed itself as a major challenge to the radiologists and physicians. Materials and Methods We Received 290 medical images composed of 120 mammographic images, LJPEG format, scanned in gray-scale with 50 microns size, 110 MRI images including of T1-Wighted, T...

Heart diagnosis is not always possible at every medical center, especially in the rural areas where less support and care, due to lack of advanced heart diagnosis equipment. Also, physician intuition and experience are not always sufficient to achieve high quality medical procedures results. Therefore, medical errors and undesirable results are reasons for a need for unconventional computer-bas...

OVERVIEW: Progress in medical imaging has led to remarkable advances in medical diagnosis technology. Nevertheless, the realization of advanced medical treatment requires functional imaging technology that is more practical. In contrast to morphological imaging, functional imaging captures information about the functioning of living tissues, such as blood circulation and oxygen metabolism, cere...