A Prototype of a Decision Support System for Equine Cardiovascular Diseases Diagnosis and Management

María Villalba-Orero and Eugenio Roanes-Lozano
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María Villalba-Orero: Hospital Clínico Veterinario Complutense & Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Eugenio Roanes-Lozano: Instituto de Matemática Interdisciplinar & Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, Sociales y Matemáticas, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 20, 1-15

Abstract: Proper diagnosis and management of equine cardiac diseases require a broad experience and a specialization in the field, but acquisition of specific knowledge is difficult, due, among other reasons, to the limited literature in this field. Therefore, we have designed, developed, and implemented (on a computer algebra system) a Decision Support System (DSS) for equine cardiovascular diseases diagnosis and management based on clinical practise. At this step it is appropriate for equine science teaching, but this work paves the way for a clinical decision support system that facilitated equine clinicians the management of horses with cardiac diseases, allowing improving health care in this species. The latter would require extensive testing prior to its use. The novelty of this work relies on the organization of the equine cardiology workflow in mathematical logic form, that allowed designing, develop and implement a DSS in this new field. An innovation of this work is the part of the DSS devoted to data completion (motivated by the possible lack of specialization of the users—the veterinarians).

Keywords: equine cardiovascular diseases; veterinarian diagnosis; decision support systems; computer algebra systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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