title: A simple algorithm for assisting medical diagnosis.
abstract: This is a description of an algorithm to assist in the selection of the most probable diagnosis of a given patient. This algorithm is based on the comparison of a scaled column vector of the symptoms displayed by the patient, and of each column of symptoms appearing in a disease matrix. Moreover, the same algorithm gives the degree of similarity of the diseases compared by the differential diagnosis, as well as the hierarchic order of the symptoms that characterise any disease.
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans