Title
Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Based on Patient Symptoms and Fuzzy Classifiers
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
The contention, mitigation and prevention measures that governments have implemented around the world do not appear to be sufficient to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The number of infected and dead continues to rise every day, putting a strain on the capacity and infrastructure of hospitals and medical centers. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new diagnostic methods based on patients' symptoms that allow the generation of early warnings for appropriate treatment. This paper presents a new method in development for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, based on patient symptoms and the use of fuzzy classifiers. Eleven (11) variables were fuzzified. Then, knowledge rules were established and finally, the center of mass method was used to generate the diagnostic results. The method was tested with a database of clinical records of symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 patients. By testing the proposed model with data from symptomatic patients, we obtained 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity. Patients according to their symptoms are classified into two classes, allowing for the detection of patients requiring immediate attention from those with milder symptoms.
Start page
484
End page
494
Volume
1410 CCIS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85111140406
Source
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Resource of which it is part
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN of the container
18650929
ISBN of the container
978-303076227-8
Conference
7th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2020
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