A Preliminary Data Visualization Approach to Vestibulocochlear Diseases Based on Multiple Scalar Dimensions

Abstract

For vestibulocochlear diseases, traditional clinical history-taking, and the terminology of widely taught nosologic taxonomy, have misleading implications that can lead to errors in diagnosis and therefore in treatment. In the interest of facilitating differential diagnosis while simultaneously recognizing that many of these diseases may not be as discrete as textbooks suggest, we propose a data visualization approach focusing on several continuous scalar dimensions in the domains of anatomy, physiology, and chronology. We illustrate the application of this approach to several categories of clinical presentation.