A Novel Neural Fuzzy Approach for Diagnosis of Potassium Disturbances

  • Authors:
  • Mashhour Bani Amer;Mohammad Amawi;Hasan El-Khatib

  • Affiliations:
  • Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan;Princess Badi'a Teaching Hospital, Jordan;Princess Bassma Teaching Hospital, Jordan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, a neural fuzzy system for the diagnosis of potassium disturbances is presented. This paper develops an adaptive neuro-fuzzy expert system that can provide accurate diagnosis of potassium disturbances. The proposed diagnostic approach has many attractive features. First, it provides an efficient tool for diagnosis of K+ disturbances and aids clinicians, especially the non-expert ones, in providing fast and accurate diagnosis of K+ disturbances in critical time. Second, it significantly reduces the time needed to accomplish precise diagnosis of K+ disturbances and thus enhances the healthcare standards. Third, it is capable of diagnosing the different types of potassium disturbances using a hybrid neural fuzzy approach. Finally, it has good accuracy higher than 87%, specificity 100%, and average sensitivity 83%. The performance of the proposed diagnostic system was experimentally evaluated and the achieved results confirmed that the proposed system is efficient and accurate in diagnosing K+ disturbances.