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  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 43
    Citation - Scopus: 80
    Text Messaging-Based Medical Diagnosis Using Natural Language Processing and Fuzzy Logic
    (Hindawi Ltd, 2020) Omoregbe, Nicholas A. I.; Ndaman, Israel O.; Misra, Sanjay; Abayomi-Alli, Olusola O.; Damasevicius, Robertas
    The use of natural language processing (NLP) methods and their application to developing conversational systems for health diagnosis increases patients' access to medical knowledge. In this study, a chatbot service was developed for the Covenant University Doctor (CUDoctor) telehealth system based on fuzzy logic rules and fuzzy inference. The service focuses on assessing the symptoms of tropical diseases in Nigeria. Telegram Bot Application Programming Interface (API) was used to create the interconnection between the chatbot and the system, while Twilio API was used for interconnectivity between the system and a short messaging service (SMS) subscriber. The service uses the knowledge base consisting of known facts on diseases and symptoms acquired from medical ontologies. A fuzzy support vector machine (SVM) is used to effectively predict the disease based on the symptoms inputted. The inputs of the users are recognized by NLP and are forwarded to the CUDoctor for decision support. Finally, a notification message displaying the end of the diagnosis process is sent to the user. The result is a medical diagnosis system which provides a personalized diagnosis utilizing self-input from users to effectively diagnose diseases. The usability of the developed system was evaluated using the system usability scale (SUS), yielding a mean SUS score of 80.4, which indicates the overall positive evaluation.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    Enhancing Misuse Cases With Risk Assessment for Safety Requirements
    (Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2020) Arogundade, Oluwasefunmi T.; Misra, Sanjay; Abayomi-Alli, Olusola O.; Fernandez-Sanz, Luis
    Risk-driven requirements elicitation represents an approach that allows assignment of appropriate countermeasure for the protection of the Information System (IS) depending on the risk level. Elicitation of safety requirements based on risk analysis is essential for those IS which will run on the open and dynamic Internet platform. Traditionally, misuse cases are used to find the weak points of an IS but cannot differentiate between the weak point that can lead to lenient hazard and/or serious hazard. In this paper, we present an enhanced misuse case approach to support IS safety risk assessment at the early stages of software process. We extensively examined and identified concepts which constitute a modelling technique for IS safety risk assessment and build a conceptual model for achieving IS safety risk assessment during the requirement analysis phase of software process. The risk assessment process follows an approach of consequential analysis based on misuse cases for safety hazard identification and qualitative risk measurement. The safety requirements are elicited according to the results of the risk assessment. A medical IS is used as a case study to validate the proposed model.