Incorporating Semiotics into Fuzzy Logic to Enhance Clinical Decision Support Systems

Abstract

Abstract. In order to enhance the quality of care, healthcare organisations are increasingly resorting to clinical decision support systems (CDSSs), which provide physicians with appropriate health care decisions or recommendations. However, how to explicitly represent the diverse vague medical knowledge and effectively reason in the decision-making process are still problems we are confronted. In this paper, we incorporate semiotics into fuzzy logic to enhance CDSSs with the aim of providing both the abilities of describing medical domain concepts contextually and reasoning with vague knowledge. A semiotically inspired fuzzy CDSSs framework is presented, based on which the vague knowledge representation and reasoning process are demonstrated.

Studies in Organisational Semiotics: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Semiotic Onion (SO): The majority of the authors used the SO to identify the informal, formal and technical norms, and to represent and comprehend the information systems, the rules and stakeholders' needs [15,16,18,19,21,26,29,30,45,46,49]. For instance, SO helped to identify socio-technical barriers that arise in the domain of integrated digital television (iDTV) [12].…”

“…Semiotically Inspired Fuzzy Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) Framework [15]: This framework allows describing medical domain concepts contextually and reasoning with vague knowledge. The authors adopted the SO and SF.…”