Abstract:
Diarrhea is considered as one of the sever disease that cause a lot of death around
developing countries. It is caused by a host of bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms
most of which are spread by contaminated water. Its occurrence is highest particularly in
children under 5 years of age. The diagnosis and treatments of diarrhea disease at various
level demand high level expert’s knowledge and practical experience. It requires
availability of qualified manpower at various levels. In today’s world computer play an
important role in solving different kinds of health problems. Different intelligent system
was developed to facilitate the decision-making process of health professionals and
improving the performance of health sectors. The disease is still the main impact and
cause of death in our country and this study focuses in diagnosis of diarrhea using CBR
system for facilitating the decision-making process of health professionals. Case based
reasoning
(CBR) may be a problem-solving paradigm that uses previous experience to resolve new
problems. The approach adopted during this study employs the utilization of an improved
CBR model for state-of-the-art reasoning task within the diagnoses of diarrhea disease.
The proposed CBR framework for diarrhea disease diagnosis will be implemented by the
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critical steps in CBR using JCOLIBRI CBR Framework. The implemented prototype will
be tested by domain experts on diarrhea disease diagnosis using a test case. User
acceptance test and statistical analysis (i.e. precision and recall) used to measure the
performance. As evaluated by domain experts an average recall value of 84%, with an
average precision of 73% has been achieved in the study. Therefore, from the results of
the testing and evaluation of the prototype system it is possible to conclude that the
research accomplished its objective. Experts in the domain are very positive to our
system and they deem that it will be a valuable tool to foster widespread experience reuse
and transfer in the area of diarrhea disease diagnoses.