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Fuzzy System as an Assessment Tool for Analysis of the Health-Related Quality of Life for the People After Stroke

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2017)

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Stroke remains one of the leading causes of long-term disability in both developed and developing countries. Prevalence and impact of the stroke-related disability on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) as a recognized and important outcome after stroke is huge. Quick, valid and reliable assessment of the HRQoL in people after stroke constitutes a significant worldwide problem for scientists and clinicians - there are many tools, but no one fulfills all requirements or has prevailing advantages. This paper presents proposition of an evaluation of HRQoL based on the two-level hierarchical fuzzy system. It uses five clinical scores and scales as the inputs and gives in result value from the interval [0; 1]. It may constitute a useful semi-automated tool for supplementary initial assessment of patient functioning and further cyclic re-assessment for rehabilitation process and patient-centered goals of rehabilitation shaping purposes.

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Prokopowicz, P., Mikołajewski, D., Mikołajewska, E., Kotlarz, P. (2017). Fuzzy System as an Assessment Tool for Analysis of the Health-Related Quality of Life for the People After Stroke. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10245. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59063-9_64

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