Computer Aided Medical Diagnosis, CAD
Computer Aided Diagnosis is a procedure in which an appropriate medical Medical Software can diagnose illness, using patient data processed by the computer. These data were once only symptoms, laboratory findings, and radiographic findings, but were inputed as text only, not allowing image processing (e.g. software for bone tumors "TUMOR", 1991).
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