title: Handling diagnosis of schizophrenia by a hybrid method.
abstract: Psychotics disorders, most commonly known as schizophrenia, have incapacitated professionals in different sectors of activities. Those disorders have caused damage in a microlevel to the individual and his/her family and in a macrolevel to the economic and production system of the country. The lack of early and sometimes very late diagnosis has provided reactive measures, when the professional is already showing psychological signs of incapacity to work. This study aims to help the early diagnosis of psychotics' disorders with a hybrid proposal of an expert system that is integrated to structured methodologies in decision support (multicriteria decision analysis: MCDA) and knowledge structured representations into production rules and probabilities (artificial intelligence: AI).
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Applied Informatics, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Avenida Washington Soares, 1321, Bl J Sl 30, 60811-905 Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luciano Comin
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Applied Informatics, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Avenida Washington Soares, 1321, Bl J Sl 30, 60811-905 Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Plácido Rogério
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Pinheiro
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Applied Informatics, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Avenida Washington Soares, 1321, Bl J Sl 30, 60811-905 Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tarcísio Pequeno
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Cavalcante
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Applied Informatics, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Avenida Washington Soares, 1321, Bl J Sl 30, 60811-905 Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mirian Calíope Dantas
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pinheiro
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014342:Truth Disclosure
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