Design and Development of an Interactive Chatbot Application for General Health Evaluation and Diagnosis

Swetha Gidugu¹ , Ashjan Khan² , Mohammadreza Hajiarbabi³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.4 , pp.1-7, Aug-2022

Online published on Aug 31, 2022

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Abstract :
Technology goes about as a scaffold between people and medicine. It helps make people`s lives much more straightforward. Coronavirus made a lot of ruin in the existence of many leaving them in a fatigued state all over the world. Indeed, even a little disarray in the well-being of an individual set off various considerations about his well-being as a top priority. As per research, several million calls were made by people to the helplines in many nations during the first wave of COVID-19 concerning mental distress and physical health. In an uncertain situation, insight incorporated into a chatbot with medical knowledge would help individuals to self-evaluate. Based on this, users can choose to check with a specialist for additional conclusions. A devoted intuitive and interactive Chatbot with a knowledge base of eminent illnesses on the planet makes it simpler. Our approach for MedBot is to make an interactive self-check chatbot to give the medical diagnosis in health categories such as Mental, Respiratory, Cardio, Neuro, and Ortho considering the underlying conditions of the disease. It covers most undiscovered yet normal diseases in the referenced health categories. It targets assisting individuals with the technology to check their psychological and general wellbeing. MedBot allows the patient to interact with the chatbot to enter the symptoms he is experiencing. It then furnishes the disease finding alongside the certainty of the disease. The value of the Certainty factor gives more exactness to the conclusion of the diagnosis.

Key-Words / Index Term :
COVID-19, mental health, respiratory ailments, expert system, certainty factor, diagnostic system, MedBot, Chatbot, AI, NLTK, API

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