Expert System for Diagnosing Malnutrition Using the Certainty Factor Method

Abstract

Malnutrition in toddlers causes a negative impact on motor nerve development, inhibits behavioral and cognitive development causing a decrease in academic performance and social skills . In addition, malnutrition during infancy can cause long-term risks that focus on later in life, increasing the risk of disease or disability or even death. With advances in information technology today, it is very helpful in predicting or identifying an event, one of which is an expert system that can help an expert in identifying a disease in the world of medicine. Therefore, an expert system is needed that can help doctors and the public find out the type of malnutrition they are suffering from based on the symptoms they are experiencing. The expert system uses the Certainty Factor method in reasoning to obtain diagnostic results from the symptoms shown. This method uses the value of an expert's belief in the symptoms of a disease. The aim of this research is to apply the certainty factor method in identifying malnutrition and providing definitions and suggestions for the disease suffered. The expert system was built using PHP and MySQL database. The results of applying the Certainty Factor method based on the tested data showed that the disease suffered by the patient was Kwarshiorkor with a Certainty Factor level of 0.958528 or 95%. The results of this test show that the certainty factor method expert system is able to identify a disease based on the symptoms experienced