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Knowledge Acquisition for Medical Diagnosis Using Collective Intelligence

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The wisdom of the crowds (WOC) is the process of taking into account the collective opinion of a group of individuals rather than a single expert to answer a question. Based on this assumption, the use of processes based on WOC techniques to collect new biomedical knowledge represents a challenging and cutting-edge trend on biomedical knowledge acquisition. The work presented in this paper shows a new schema to collect diagnosis information in Diagnosis Decision Support Systems (DDSS) based on collective intelligence and consensus methods.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad 30, 28911, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    G. Hernández-Chan & J. M. Gómez-Berbís

  2. Bioinformatics at Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics UPM-INIA, Madrid, Spain

    A. Rodríguez-González

  3. Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Mexico

    G. Alor-Hernández & R. Posada-Gómez

  4. Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), IMIM-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dr. Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain

    M. A. Mayer-Pujadas

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Hernández-Chan, G., Rodríguez-González, A., Alor-Hernández, G. et al. Knowledge Acquisition for Medical Diagnosis Using Collective Intelligence. J Med Syst 36 (Suppl 1), 5–9 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-012-9886-3

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