Abstract:
Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is a common worldwide infection and a medical and
social problem causing high mortality and morbidity, especially in developing
countries. An expert system for diagnosis of this disease was designed based on
expert’s knowledge for providing decision support platform to assist fresh
graduator (inexperienced) physicians, and other healthcare practitioners to arrive
the final diagnosis of TB more quickly and efficiently especially in rural areas.
Information about pulmonary tuberculosis and its symptoms and treatment from
doctor who are specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis were
collected.
The system was built using C sharp language and artificial intelligence based
expert system in coordinated manner help in the diagnosis of tuberculosis disease
and assistance in giving the necessary treatment In addition to giving advice to
patients.
