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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254163403321

Autore

Tarnowska Katarzyna A

Titolo

Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Hearing Disorders : The Case of Tinnitus / / by Katarzyna A. Tarnowska, Zbigniew W. Ras, Pawel J. Jastreboff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-51463-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 160 p. 33 illus.)

Collana

Studies in Computational Intelligence, , 1860-949X ; ; 685

Disciplina

617.806

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Health informatics

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Health Informatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Tinnitus treatment as a problem area  -- Recommender solutions overview -- Knowledge discovery approach for recommendation -- RECTIN system design -- Experiment 1: classifiers -- Experiment 2: diagnostic rules -- Experiment 3: treatment rules -- Experiment 4: treatment rules enhancement -- RECTIN implementation -- Final conclusions and future work -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

The book presents a knowledge discovery based approach to build a recommender system supporting a physician in treating tinnitus patients with the highly successful method called Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. It describes experiments on extracting novel knowledge from the historical dataset of patients treated by Dr. P. Jastreboff so that to better understand factors behind therapy's effectiveness and better personalize treatments for different profiles of patients. The book is a response for a growing demand of an advanced data analytics in the healthcare industry in order to provide better care with the data driven decision-making solutions. The potential economic benefits of applying



computerized clinical decision support systems include not only improved efficiency in health care delivery (by reducing costs, improving quality of care and patient safety), but also enhancement in treatment's standardization, objectivity and availability in places of scarce expert's knowledge on this difficult to treat hearing disorder. Furthermore, described approach could be used in assessment of the clinical effectiveness of evidence-based intervention of various proposed treatments for tinnitus.