Collective intelligence as mechanism of medical diagnosis: The iPixel approach

  • Authors:
  • Yuliana PéRez-Gallardo;Giner Alor-HernáNdez;Guillermo Cortes-Robles;Alejandro RodríGuez-GonzáLez

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, Leganés, 28911 Madrid, Spain;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col Emiliano Zapata, C.P. 94320, Orizaba, Mexico;Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col Emiliano Zapata, C.P. 94320, Orizaba, Mexico;Bioinformatics at Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics UPM-INIA, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la U.P.M. Campus de Montegancedo, Pozuelo de ...

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Collective intelligence (CI) is an active field of research, which capitalizes the knowledge of human collectives in order to create, to innovate and to invent. There are two important mechanisms to implement CI: recommender and reputation systems. Recommender systems are used to provide filtered information from a large amount of elements. The recommendations are intended to provide interesting elements to users. Recommendation systems can be developed using different techniques and algorithms where the selection of these techniques depends on the area in which they will be applied. This work presents iPixel Recommender Engine, which is focused on the medical field. iPixel Recommendation Engine supports the process of differential diagnosis by recommending mammographic evaluations. Each mammogram is collectively tagged by the users' community with a semantic sense; this feature allows iPixel acquires collective knowledge. iPixel can associate more than one feature with each mammogram. This work also presents a qualitative evaluation, where the basic features that a recommendation system should have in the medical field were obtained. Finally, a comparison was carried out with other similar recommender systems in order to know the Pixel advantages.