Abstract:
A process for analyzing for a variety of physical medical disorders, which includes: (a) clinically testing by a common analysis, patients free of such disorders to obtain characterization thereof as numerical data; (b) scaling a matrix of the data by computer; (c) configuring an artificial neural network prescribed by the number of variables and number of disorders; (d) fitting the neural network in a computer to the numerical data according to adjustable network parameters which include the number of neurons in a hidden layer, the number of hidden layers, the type of layer transfer function, and the connecting weights; (e) thereby training the neural network; (f) withdrawing from a new patient a sample or samples and subjecting same to like clinical testing to obtain new numeric data; (g) scaling the new data; (h) feeding the scaled new data to the trained neural network; and (i) automatically obtaining a diagnosis of the new patient with respect to such disorders.