Fuzzy Cognitive Map based decision support system for thyroid diagnosis management

Abstract

Knowledge-based systems are the most common type of artificial intelligence in medicine systems in routine clinical use. They contain medical knowledge, usually about a very specifically defined task, and are able to reason with data from individual patients to come up with reasoned conclusions. Although there are many variations, the knowledge within an expert system is typically represented in the form of a set of rules. Fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) is a knowledge based modeling methodology based on exploiting knowledge and experience from experts. It can handle uncertainty and can be constructed basely by expertspsila knowledge.