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Psychiatry is the medical specialty responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, in an attempt to secure mental health in the human beings. However, the human brain is a very complex organ, which makes the diagnosis of this kind of illnesses a hard task. Considering this fact, an ontology was conceived with the task of inferring one or more psychiatric disorders depending on the symptoms presented by a patient.
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Silva, C., Marreiros, G., Silva, N. (2014). Development of an Ontology for Supporting Diagnosis in Psychiatry. In: Omatu, S., Bersini, H., Corchado, J., Rodríguez, S., Pawlewski, P., Bucciarelli, E. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 290. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07593-8_40
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