Hello-- I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical decisions. I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am pretty stuck on a few things.
I've built a file that contains a list of many diseases and their associated symptoms. For example, here are the column headers and two sample rows (the "|" = "or"): Disease Symptoms Cold sore_throat|runny_nose|congestion|cough|aches|slight_fever Flu sore_throat|fever|headache|muscle_aches|soreness|congestion|cough|returning_fever My questions are the following: a) How's the best way to make it so I can have a user type in a list of symptoms and then have the computer tell the user the possible diseases that share those symptoms? In other words, on a high-level I have a pretty good idea of what I want my algorithm to do-- but I need help implementing the basic version first. I'd like to do the following: >>>Please enter a list of symptoms >>>[user_input] >>>Possible diseases include: x, y, z b)Once I get that working, could anyone point me to good code already written in Python such that I could have a model (for syntax and overall structure) for figuring out how to make the computer evaluate more factors such as: patient age, patient history, and even downloading archival data for patients in the same demographic group? Thanks!
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