Cardoso L, Marins F, Magalhães R, Marins N, Oliveira T, Vicente H, Abelha A, Machado J, Neves J
University of Minho, CCTC, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal ; ICVS/3B's, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Guimarães, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2015;2015:467178. doi: 10.1155/2015/467178. Epub 2015 Mar 5.
Schizophrenia stands for a long-lasting state of mental uncertainty that may bring to an end the relation among behavior, thought, and emotion; that is, it may lead to unreliable perception, not suitable actions and feelings, and a sense of mental fragmentation. Indeed, its diagnosis is done over a large period of time; continuos signs of the disturbance persist for at least 6 (six) months. Once detected, the psychiatrist diagnosis is made through the clinical interview and a series of psychic tests, addressed mainly to avoid the diagnosis of other mental states or diseases. Undeniably, the main problem with identifying schizophrenia is the difficulty to distinguish its symptoms from those associated to different untidiness or roles. Therefore, this work will focus on the development of a diagnostic support system, in terms of its knowledge representation and reasoning procedures, based on a blended of Logic Programming and Artificial Neural Networks approaches to computing, taking advantage of a novel approach to knowledge representation and reasoning, which aims to solve the problems associated in the handling (i.e., to stand for and reason) of defective information.
精神分裂症代表一种长期的精神紊乱状态，这种状态可能会终结行为、思维和情感之间的关联；也就是说，它可能导致感知不可靠、行为和情感不恰当，以及精神分裂感。实际上，其诊断需要很长一段时间；这种紊乱的持续迹象至少要持续6个月。一旦发现，精神科医生会通过临床访谈和一系列心理测试来进行诊断，主要目的是避免误诊为其他精神状态或疾病。不可否认，识别精神分裂症的主要问题在于难以将其症状与那些与不同紊乱或角色相关的症状区分开来。因此，这项工作将专注于开发一个诊断支持系统，在知识表示和推理过程方面，基于逻辑编程和人工神经网络计算方法的融合，利用一种新颖的知识表示和推理方法，旨在解决处理（即表示和推理）有缺陷信息时相关的问题。
