Managing urinary incontinence through hand-held real-time decision support aid

Abstract

In this paper, we present a intelligent system for the diagnosis and treatment of Urinary Incontinence (UI) for males as well as females, called e-URIN . e-URIN is an intelligent system for diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence according to symptoms that are realized in one patient and usually recorded through his clinical examination as well as specific test results. The user-friendly proposed intelligent system is accommodated on a hospital server supporting e-health tools, for use through pocket PCs under wireless connection as a decision support system for resident doctors, as well as an educational tool for medical students. It is based on expert system knowledge representation provided from urology experts in combination with rich bibliographic search and study ratified with statistical results from clinical practice. Preliminary experimental results on a real patient hospital database provide acceptable performance that can be improved using more than one computational intelligence approaches in the future. © 2010 International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.