A Parallel Medical Diagnostic and Treatment System for Chronic Diseases

Abstract

In order to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and the effectiveness of treatment on chronic diseases, a parallel medical diagnostic and treatment system for chronic diseases is proposed in this paper. The system consists of the artificial system, computational experiments and parallel execution. Generally, the actual medical system includes real doctors, real patients, and the process of real doctors diagnosing and creating a treatment plan. Based on the components in actual medical system, the virtual doctors and virtual patients are created in artificial system. The computational experiments are to exhaustively explore and evaluate reasonable diagnoses and treatment options, so that the most accurate diagnosis and the best treatment plan are configured. The parallel execution between the artificial and the actual system includes the interaction between virtual doctors and real doctors as well as that between the virtual patients and actual patients. The parallel execution, on the doctors' end, is to ensure the precise diagnosis of diseases and the effectiveness of the treatment plan. On the other hand, the parallel execution, on the patients' end, is to provide patients with more personal guidance on following the treatment and to assist sending feedback to the system regarding the treatment effectiveness. As the chronic diseases generally require a long-term treatment, this parallel system can better accommodate the process by continuously monitoring the treatment and sending feedback to the model so as to actively optimize the treatment plan.