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Thyroid Dysfunction is a clinical condition that affects thyroid behaviour and is reported to be the most common in all endocrine disorders. It is a multiple factorial pathology condition due to the high incidence of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, which is becoming a serious health problem requiring a detailed study for early diagnosis and monitoring. Understanding the prevalence and risk factors of thyroid disease can be very useful to identify patients for screening and/or follow-up and to minimize their collateral effects. Thus, this paper describes the development of a decision support system that aims to help physicians in the decision-making process regarding thyroid dysfunction assessment. The proposed problem-solving method is based on a symbolic/sub-symbolic line of logical formalisms that have been articulated as an Artificial Neural Network approach to data processing, complemented by an unusual approach to Knowledge Representation and Argumentation that takes into account the data elements entropic states. The model performs well in the thyroid dysfunction assessment with an accuracy ranging between 93.2% and 96.9%.
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This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.
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Santos, S. et al. (2019). A Many-Valued Empirical Machine for Thyroid Dysfunction Assessment. In: Cortez, P., Magalhães, L., Branco, P., Portela, C., Adão, T. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2018. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16447-8_5
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