DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND CONSULTANCY SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND CONSULTANCY SYSTEM

CHAPITRE ONE:

INTRODUCTION

1.1.0 INTRODUCTION IN GENERAL

When afflicted, medical establishments such as hospitals, rehabilitation centers, health-saloons, and so on are viewed as beacons of hope. Medical facilities, like other organizations, are well-organized, with rigorous and sophisticated protocols. In recent years, records have revealed a rise in medical diagnosis inaccuracy and imprecision, since most patients who are unable to see a clinic for thorough diagnosis end up treating illness incorrectly. With the development of computers and the internet, millions of people now have access to professional medical diagnosis and treatment methods. Today, several algorithms, models, and technologies are in place to ensure accurate and precise diagnosis on patients, which has reduced the country’s and the world’s mortality rate. Fuzzy logics is one of these technologies.

Online Medical Diagnosis Software (OMDS) automates the entire process of patient diagnosis with accurate and precise results by employing a well-detailed and well-proven algorithm to accomplish its desired output, one of which is fuzzy logic, a branch of artificial intelligence. Using the software eliminates all such difficulties by allowing you to access your information precisely.

1.2.0 BEGINNING

The first chapter introduces the research work and the problem definition of the research, and the research justification tells us why it is important to research on this topic; it also covers areas like scope and limitation of study, which entails the boundary of this work. The definition of words summarizes what each chapter includes.

1.3.0 DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM

This OMDS study project was conducted to reveal some of the issues that characterized the previous way of medical diagnostic, which claimed many lives. Here, patients take drugs based on ancient myth, past experience, and drug availability, not realizing that the same symptom can be associated with multiple illnesses and thus engaging in drug abuse.The proposed OMDS is intended to detect a variety of diseases in an expert system, including Malaria, Typhoid, Cholera, and Ebola. Because fuzzy logic is one of the most efficient qualitative computation methods, it was chosen as the artificial intelligence tool used in the proposed system.

1.4.0 STUDY OBJECTIVE

Given the aforementioned issues, the goal of this project is to build Online Medical Diagnosis Software (OMDS), which will solely:

• Diagnose and provide accurate results from the patient’s or users’ chosen symptom

SCREEN CAPTURES OF THE APPLICATION

1.5.0 JUSTIFICATION OF RESEARCH

Because the results are obtained from a well-known medical institution, this research work will provide a reliable method of dealing with patient diagnoses. This research, which will be made available online, will be accessible to anyone who does not have access to a professional consultant or health practitioner.It will also help with structural document representation of medications and symptoms for all diseases covered by this system. This study will also add to the current literature in this field and act as a guide or template for an undergraduate student.

1.6.0 METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH

The “design and implementation of an interactive project management system” research project will be a web-based application built on a relational database system (MySQL). The web-user interface will be designed in HTML, CSS, and Jquery, while php (hypertext preprocessor) will be utilized as the server-side script language to connect the interface and the database.

1.7.0 STUDY SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

The goal of this project is to create a system capable of diagnosing only the diseases and symptoms listed below.

Malaria:

Malaria symptoms include:

• Fever

• Migraine

• Shortcoming

• Myalgia, often known as muscle pain

• Arthralgia, often known as joint pain

• Anorexia (loss of appetite)

• Constipation

• vomiting and nausea

• abdominal discomfort

• Cold or chills

Cholera

Symptoms:

• watery stools

• dehydration or volume depletion

• throwing up

• gastric discomfort or abdominal pain

• lethargy, laziness, or exhaustion

Typhoid

Symptoms:

• high temperature

• a dull frontal discomfort

• abdominal discomfort

• anorexia: an eating disorder that causes weight loss

• indigestion

• cough

• vomiting

• malaise or exhaustion

• shivers

Symptoms of Yellow Fever:

• fever

• injection of the conjunctiva or red eyes

• relative bradycardia, often known as a slow heartbeat

• Jaundice or a yellowish complexion

• hemorrhagic diathesis, often known as bleeding

• hypotension, also known as low blood pressure

• high blood pressure

• lethargy, laziness, or exhaustion

• throwing up

Ebola

Ebola symptoms include:

• Fever

• Extensive headache

• Muscle ache

• Shortcoming

• Tiredness

• Constipation

• Diarrhea

• Stomach (abdominal) pain

• Unknown cause of hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)

Tuberculosis

Active tuberculosis symptoms include:

• Coughing that lasts three weeks or more.

• Vomiting blood.

• Chest pain or discomfort when breathing or coughing.

• Inadvertent weight reduction.

• Tiredness.

• Fever.

• Sweating at night.

• Goosebumps.

The system will not include all of the functions of a diagnosis system in its development, but will instead concentrate on the aforementioned functionalities. If the system’s environment (network/system placed on) is corrupt, the system will not be liable for any data loss.

1.8.0 CHAPTER ORGANIZATION

This section was created to explain what each chapter does. Chapter one introduces the project to the reader by explaining the problems that the project is supposed to solve, the objective of the study and research justification is to describe to the reader the purpose and importance of researching on this topic, research methodology is all about the method used in implementing the research work, scope and limitation describes the boundary of the research work, and where the research work ends.

The second chapter discusses the literature review and the state of the art.This chapter examines the literature review, what people have published linked to this study effort and its inadequacies, and how the current research can address those shortcomings.

The third chapter discusses system design methodology, which is a collection of tools, methods, and practices for completing a task; the requirement specification, which defines the system analysis’s expectations; and design, which is the blueprint of what the system will perform.

The fourth chapter discusses implementation, system testing methodologies, target computer system requirements, program maintenance, and so on.

Chapter five outlines the study effort’s recommendations and conclusion, as well as how this work might be applied to the problem domain.

1.9 Term Definition

OMDS stands for online medical diagnosis system.