Abstract
Headache is not a disease which typically shortens one’s life. However, it can be a serious social as well as a health problem. Approximately 27 billion euros per year are lost through reduced work productivity in the European Community. While the diagnostic criteria developed by the International Headache Society (IHS) have been extensively used in the epidemiological research, there is no such a tool which helps physicians make diagnoses. This research focussed on diagnosing certain primary headache types in working people employing the rule-based fuzzy logic system. The rules were facilitated by the application of the IHS criteria for headache types. Clinical experience was used to extend the established rules and improve the system. The proposed system is in the starting phase of the implementation at the Clinical Centre Vojvodina, Institute of Neurology in Novi Sad.
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Simić, S., Simić, D., Slankamenac, P., Simić-Ivkov, M. (2008). Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Primary Headaches. In: Corchado, E., Abraham, A., Pedrycz, W. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems. HAIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87656-4_39
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