Fuzzy logic and its applications in medicine

Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic are a highly suitable and applicable basis for developing knowledge-based systems in medicine for tasks such as the i nterpretation of sets of medical findings, syndrome differentiation in East ern. medicine, diagnosis of diseases in Western medicine, mixed diagnosis o f integrated Western and Eastern medicine, the optimal selection of medical treatments integrating Western and Eastern medicine, and for real-time mon itoring of patient data. This was verified by trials with the following sys tems that were developed by our group in Vietnam: a fuzzy Expert System for Syndromes Differentiation in Oriental Traditional Medicine, an Expert Syst em for Lung Diseases using fuzzy logic, Case Based Reasoning for Medical Di agnosis using fuzzy set theory, a diagnostic system combining disease diagn osis of Western Medicine with syndrome differentiation. of Oriental Traditi onal Medicine, a fuzzy system for classification of Western and Eastern med icaments and finally, a fuzzy system for diagnosis and treatment of integra ted Western and Eastern Medicine. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. Al l rights reserved.