TY - GEN
T1 - Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) prediction using Fuzzy Inference System (fis)
AU - Qidwai, Uvais
AU - Shamim, M. Shahzad
AU - Raquib, Farhana
AU - Enam, Ather
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In this paper a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) is presented to predict the level of Risk for a class of patients to be needing a repeated surgery for the herniated lumber disc (or more commonly known as slipped disc). The FIS is based upon a clinical study that was conducted by a number of doctors at Aga Khan University Hospital in Pakistan with the objective that certain clinical measures can be used from the beginning to assist the physician in making a better risk estimate for the patient at hand. As such, over 90 clinical markers were collected through patients' surveys over a period of 5 years (2000-2004). The presented study utilizes a subset of 16 markers and has recommendation for 7 of these markers for a reasonably accurate risk prediction. A set of 11 rules has been established that constitute the mapped understanding from the physicians' heuristics. Such a system will be a very helpful tool for medical professionals for making quick risk assessment for a patient and will enable them to more accurately define the treatment for the same.
AB - In this paper a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) is presented to predict the level of Risk for a class of patients to be needing a repeated surgery for the herniated lumber disc (or more commonly known as slipped disc). The FIS is based upon a clinical study that was conducted by a number of doctors at Aga Khan University Hospital in Pakistan with the objective that certain clinical measures can be used from the beginning to assist the physician in making a better risk estimate for the patient at hand. As such, over 90 clinical markers were collected through patients' surveys over a period of 5 years (2000-2004). The presented study utilizes a subset of 16 markers and has recommendation for 7 of these markers for a reasonably accurate risk prediction. A set of 11 rules has been established that constitute the mapped understanding from the physicians' heuristics. Such a system will be a very helpful tool for medical professionals for making quick risk assessment for a patient and will enable them to more accurately define the treatment for the same.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSPC.2007.4728460
DO - 10.1109/ICSPC.2007.4728460
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349110890
SN - 9781424412365
T3 - ICSPC 2007 Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications
SP - 880
EP - 883
BT - ICSPC 2007 Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, ICSPC 2007
Y2 - 14 November 2007 through 27 November 2007
ER -