Enhanced DeepQA in a medical environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8805756
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14067416

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A DeepQA engine is enhanced to provide a digital medical investigation tool which assists a medical professional in researching potential causes of a set of patient conditions, including clues, facts and factoids about the patient. The DeepQA engine provides one or more answers to a natural language question with confidence levels for each answer. If a confidence level falls below a threshold, the enhanced DeepQA engine performs a crowd sourcing operation to gather additional information from one or more domain experts. The domain expert responses are provided to the medical professional, and are learned by the enhanced DeepQA system to provide for better research of similar patient conditions in future queries.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Boss, Gregory J Saginaw, US 783 8533
Chen-Ritzo, Ching-Hua New York, US 14 279
Hamilton,, II Rick A Charlottesville, US 885 15054
Hu, Jianying Bronx, US 104 1646
Pickover, Clifford A Yorktown Heights, US 921 16403

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