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Dermtrainer: A Decision Support System for Dermatological Diseases

Information Retrieval 2019-07-02 v1

Abstract

Dermtrainer is a medical decision support system that assists general practitioners in diagnosing skin diseases and serves as a training platform for dermatologists. Its key components are a comprehensive dermatological knowledge base, a clinical algorithm for diagnosing skin diseases, a reasoning component for deducing the most likely differential diagnoses for a patient, and a library of high-quality images. This report describes the technical components of the system, in particular the ranking algorithm for retrieving appropriate diseases as diagnoses.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.00635,
  title  = {Dermtrainer: A Decision Support System for Dermatological Diseases},
  author = {Gernot Salzer and Agata Ciabattoni and Christian Fermüller and Martin Haiduk and Harald Kittler and Arno Lukas and Rosa María Rodríguez Domínguez and Antonia Wesinger and Elisabeth Riedl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00635},
  year   = {2019}
}
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