medical diagnosis, medical expert system for Windows, matching symptoms and signs using artificial intelligence techniques

     
5GL Software, 370/210 Windang Rd, Windang  NSW 2528, Australia
mobile (country code is 61) 0431 741 233, email: med5gl@pacific.net.au


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(At installation time specify either British/Australian spelling or USA/International English. Sample displays herein may be using either spelling.)

Are you a psychiatrist? Then please read these few pages of our preparation for a submission for a Nobel Prize in Medicine. Any feedback is important. Any suggestions are. Anyone who has ever put together this type of complex document please provide suggestions how best to break up the sections or anything to do with the format. Some simple issues are not clear. For example. Given the main target are psychiatrists or clinical psychologists, is it important to spell out what certain functions of specific areas of the brain are or do we assume the reader would surely know that?

Links

Bereavement Counseling

Psycholegalanalysis
(a proposed medical science for psychiatrists who deal with lawyers/police).
Did you know?

According to one aged care worker with close to 20 years experience,  it is impossible to explain to family members why a parent with dementia keeps asking the same question over and over. It is just impossible - so our aged care worker says.

Education about the brain may need to begin at elementary school - else dementia, or a psychopath sibling turning on the family the moment it is clear a parent has dementia and engineers a Will leaving all to himself or herself - and psychopaths can plant things so that any other family member that stands in the way of a psychopath's financial gain may even end up in prison -  such things become impossible for ordinary people to understand and a form of "psycholegal shock" sets in that can cause serious problem, even marriage collapses.

Surely such matters are medical issues and not political ones? Education appears one key.

Without such education, the average person forms a "belief system of convenience." Examples: "your grandmother has been punished by God", or "your father disinherited all his children and gave it all to his neighbour because they all wanted to put him in a nursing home. The court agreed and allowed probate to the neighbour - so this must be true."
Treatise prepared as submission(s) for a Nobel Prize in Science. Your feedback is important and welcome.

(a) (Medicine) Psycholegalshock: Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment

(b) (Physics) Dimensional Energy Physics

(c) (Neuroscience) The Nature of Law and the proposed Science of Law

Insight into Life in the Spirit, for psychiatrists in the main, may also be of interest.
Superpsychic Web Pages



Our case study is Australian NSW Supreme Court Case 2010/83570 (but this could be the case in other countries). Briefly, Australian Anglo-Saxon courts sign court orders known as AVOs, restraining orders, supposedly to protect a person from violence, as a "matter of routine". These are applied for by legal firms. Consequently these have become a boom industry and are used in all manner of legal scams even to protect child sexual abuse. However, this could be the case in other countries even when politicians and lawyers tell you otherwise.
 
Refer Alzheimer's Scam Report and female child sexual abuse legal scam or Medical fact sheet for Australian doctors

For a PowerPoint presentation about AVOs (restraining orders)  in Australia click here.

(also refer our treatise intended for a Nobel Prize in Medicine titled Psycholegalshock: Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment.



Extract from CMPL and the treatise titled "Psycholegalshock: Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment"

From observation of 6 persons in judicial positions (magistrates, judges, asssociate judges, or similar) psycholegalanalysis concludes "with the exception of the youngest one, these people are sadists at the unconscious level. Whether this is a congenital or acquired trait is not known. Possibly, if we follow through Freud's theories on development of the psyche, then it follows then in a court room situation in which such people are continually exposed to horrendous crimes, the only way these people can psychologically survive is by developing strong unconscious sadistic traits. While the typical intelligent and normal person will go out of their way not to do jury duty, because they do not want to hear horror in real life, these people presiding as judges (or similar) delight in hearing such horror. This can explain most aspects of legal decisions - such as hanging a 7 year old for stealing a piece of bread as took place in Australia some 200 years ago. Normal people would never imagine this type of sadism - but those who sit as judges can delight in it. To these types, law becomes a convenient excuse for acts of cruelty and sadism - just as for some soldiers war becomes a convenient excuse for rape and torture." (the CMPL, but not the free edition, the clinical manual of psycholegalanalysis, contains a diagnosis criteria for sadism in judicial officers). Further, "our primary sample court case shows an associate justice accepting "fabricated evidence" and concluding that he is satisfied with that evidence. In this case the defendant is a solicitor, a "mate" in that sense, and a psychopath, and sadists take delight and pride in the work of other sadist types. This associate justice, at the unconscious level, delights in the defendant purchasing a court order to isolate the plaintiff (the true heir) of a Will of a brain damaged parent and engineering a new Will leaving all to himself. This is pure unconscious delight to the associate justice - the sadist in him is overjoyed - and he wants to compliment the psychopath who organized all this - and this he does by accepting the fabricated evidence invented by the psychopath. He is convinced just because he is a judge, no one will question his decision and his ability to see truth." (but note that the CMPL explains that whatever a person does in private has no bearing on input - only public acts or physical acts against unconsenting people, qualliy as input to an analysis. Thus, hypothetically, because a particular judge may have a fetish of "sadism" in ordinary life with consenting adults, does not mean he is a sadist at the unconscious level. In some people certain...fetishes...are only there to release stress from the unconscious and once that stress is released the subconscious does not retain the sadistic trait. Thus there is a distinct definition of "unconscious sadist" and this may not relate to ordinary private life).



About 5GL-Doctor (sample displays follow)

A database is large. Information from Merck, Harrisons, eMedicine. Only slight alternation in format to allow the software to build an internal view.

The database is not the feature.  Mainly put together to allow the software to infer information. The emphasis of the entries is typically only on presentation and diagnosis.

The encyclopedia Britannica definition of an "expert system" is "a knowledge base and an inference engine".

A medical diagnosis expert system is a daunting challenge.

Perhaps the most difficult choice for a new user is which analysis they prefer and have most confidence in.

The software works best when an adequate number of symptoms/signs/etc., or relatively unique symptoms/signs, are the inquiry. Minimal symptoms/signs, non-specific ones at that, tend to confuse the software and it does not know how to best produce a short list (which is probably true of physicians too). The database while very large is unlikely to have all known medical conditions or combinations thereof. (Too often when Medscape sends us case studies we tend to find "hello, we don't have that disease or (combination/etc.) defined.")
Dear Sir,

It must have taken me the whole of two years, but I do not easily forget a favor, and that was not a small one. My name is (name) and on the 12th of February, 2011, you gave me an activation code for your expert system 5GL-Doctor. Out of excitement I made a promise which I couldn't just forget and I had to implement- acknowledging you in my Masters thesis.

Again, thank you for all your help and God bless you.




    Analysis 2 (image on left; in some displays USA spelling was used in that instal; the display is as large as your display and the larger the display the better it looks) uses computational techniques to derive its short lists. These are rules that together "infer" how best to form the short list. The short list is pretty impressive - similar to what you might find in a reputable medical handbook. The rules can be exacting, for example such as "in the setting of a fever of unknown origin in a child 8 years or under, bias the Cardiovascular category."

The "explain" function looks in the in-built dictionary. This feature is intended for the non-medical user or the non-native English physician.

The computational techniques require a well structured database. At first install, the software "compiles" a large internal database (from the supplied disease database) which contains the information it needs to access. Thus it forms its own view of how symptoms/signs come together, what are the vital clues to a diagnosis, and so on.

There are two reasons why 5GL-Doctor is ever so useful. First, with around 5000 highly specific symptoms/signs/etc. defined, it is likely you will find what you are looking for very quickly. Secondly, if there are no key indicators or too many, Analysis 2 (or 1 or 3) can chew through these comparing perhaps a million times until it forms a short list.

Given the Disease and Conditions database is correct in its definition of a disease, there is no computational reason why a 100% correct solution is not found. What does 100% correct mean? The software can not do a physical or order specific tests - but within its limitations and subject to the best entry of information in the database, it should be 100% correct each time in how it presents its short list.



Three Main Function



The database itself, while large, is not the feature. The Drugs database is not the feature. The medical procedures and tests while large is not the feature. The software is a database management package for medical information - that is the feature, and it uses expert system techniques to find and compare such, and form short lists.

1. Analysis/Diagnosis. Different analysis functions which use a different approach.

The database has perhaps 4,000 medical conditions defined. Some of these contain variations. The information is from reliable sources such as Merck, Harrison's, Emedicine, or experts in an area, etc. It is "dangerous" to alter the wording of experts and the reason the only changes made were ones the software needed to scan a disease. The database is completely updateable. The symptoms/signs/other items "Selection List" is very large with thousands of items and aliases. In addition the software scans and picks up any symptom/sign/item not directly defined. Early sales of the professional edition was not solely to physicians and medical people, but also to people with a more serious medical condition. For this reason "simplicity" in defining symptoms and signs became the design requirement. (there are aliases which map onto medical names).

2. Medical Information Storage and Management. Comes with a populated drugs database, medical procedures database, laboratory tests database, and of course the diseases database. Image library and databank are not populated but contain entries that serve as demonstration of how the two features can be used.

3. Execution of "Conversations" which can be a system review or a medical algorithm or even questions and answers that a person could go through while waiting in the surgery. Conversations can be designed by the user. About a hundred are provided, including a complete system review, and a medical algorithm to do with a DDX in a certain infection, as examples of how to write a conversation.

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This analysis function scans the selected condition for its DDX list, if found it then scans the database (this is a very large database - and it is not a matter of scanning for say angina - it is also a question of scanning for all other names by which angina is known - and with some conditions that can be as many as fifty other names which means the computer is doing lots and lots of work  - so this takes 30 secs or so) and counts the number of times a condition on the DDX list of the selected condition appeas in other conditions. Explained simply, the higher the number shown, the more conditions you dismiss if you eliminate that condition from the DDX list . Do note that only perhaps 50% of the entries have a DDX list, hence you may need to put one in place yourself for some entries if you decided you lilke this particular analysis more than others.     

   

  

 


 
   

There is also a large image library, however, this is more for the personal edition user. Some parts of the software are shared with the personal edition and some images included are very basic intended to educate the non-medical person. However, there are also some images which any physician might find useful such as of some skin conditions.



The above is the entry of disease information into the software. All other information - drugs, procedures, symptom/sign/lab definitions - are entered through the Databank facility.






Below is a sample of the Databank - it is not populated as such, just some sample entries. You can use the databank to save your medical articles. Note that most of the headers below are set by you.

 


The Databank can be used to store all manner of information.


The images included are from medical sites which allow copy of such and inclusion commercial software or web pages.

You can add, modify, and remove records at will.

Some of the headers can be set ("Field Names") for each entry hence you can have headers such as "Extract, Neuroscience News, Feb 2011" which makes it easy to find exactly what you want.





















Purchase

After purchase go to download page and download.

5GL-Doctor Professional Edition for non third-world countries, price $US250, two activation codes supplied.  Note that the display above, Statistical Analysis, requires a larger display (typical laptop is fine but smaller laptops will not be able to display all the information. This is the only analysis which does need a larger display.

Note that for accounting reasons when processing payments this is referred to as the Expanded Edition. It is the same as the edition below. 

5GL-Doctor Professional Edition for third-world countries, price $US140, three activation codes supplied. Note that the display above, Statistical Analysis, requires a larger display (typical laptop display is fine but smaller laptops will not be able to display all the information. This is the only analysis which does need a larger display.

Note that for accounting reasons when processing payments this is referred to as the Professional Edition. It is the same as the edition above.