Medical Interview Consistency Verification for AI Diagnosis

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Solution Overview

Problem

The instability of patient responses to medical interview questions poses challenges for AI-driven medical treatment, as these responses can change significantly due to patient sensibility and feelings, affecting the accuracy and reliability of medical diagnosis and treatment.

Innovation Solution

A medical information processing system that acquires and compares patient answers to medical interview questions at different timings to determine consistency, using natural language processing and machine learning models to assess the validity of these responses, thereby reducing the influence of changes in patient answers on medical treatment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If patient answers to medical interview questions are used directly for AI-driven medical treatment, then the medical treatment can be automated, but the reliability of medical treatment deteriorates due to instability and changes in patient responses

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomation of medical treatmentVSAvoidreliability of medical treatment
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring multiple answers at different timings before making a medical diagnosis. It compares these answers in advance to determine consistency, and only uses consistent answers for disease estimation. This preliminary verification process ensures that unstable or changing patient responses are filtered out before affecting the automated medical treatment decision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If multiple patient answers at different timings are compared to determine consistency, then the reliability of medical treatment is improved, but the complexity of the medical information processing system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability of medical treatmentVSAvoidcomplexity of medical information processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the medical information processing into distinct functional modules: an answer acquirer that collects multiple answers at different timings, an answer comparator that analyzes consistency between answers, and a disease estimator that makes diagnoses based on consistent answers. This segmentation allows each module to perform its specific function independently, making the overall complex system more manageable and maintainable while ensuring reliable medical treatment through systematic answer verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20230018077A1Medical information processing system, medical information processing method, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2023.01.19 CANON MEDICAL SYST CORP
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AI summary

According to an embodiment, a medical information processing system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a first answer of a target person to a medical interview question made at a first timing and a second answer of the target person to a medical interview question made at a second timing different from the first timing, and to determine whether or not the first answer and the second answer are consistent.