4.7 Article

Learning and inference in knowledge-based probabilistic model for medical diagnosis

Journal

KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages 58-68

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2017.09.030

Keywords

Probabilistic model; First-order knowledge; Markov network; Gradient descent; Markov logic network

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC71531007]

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Based on a weighted knowledge graph to represent first-order knowledge and combining it with a probabilistic model, we propose a methodology for creating a medical knowledge network (MKN) in medical diagnosis. When a set of evidence is activated for a specific patient, we can generate a ground medical knowledge network that is composed of evidence nodes and potential disease nodes. By incorporating a Boltzmann machine into the potential function of a Markov network, we investigated the joint probability distribution of the MKN. To consider numerical evidence, a multivariate inference model is presented that uses conditional probability. In addition, the weights for the knowledge graph are efficiently learned from manually annotated Chinese Electronic Medical Records (CEMRs) and Blood Examination Records (BERs). In our experiments, we found numerically that an improved expression of evidence variables is necessary for medical diagnosis. Our experimental results comparing a Markov logic network and six kinds of classic machine learning algorithms on the actual CEMR database and BER database indicate that our method holds promise and that MKN can facilitate studies of intelligent diagnosis. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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