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The process of brain tumor diagnoses involved many medical expert and large number of rules and regulation. For public, it is important to recognise the symptoms. Medical expert need the system to assist in decision making. This paper presents a brain tumor treatment advisory system (BTTAS) for public and medical experts. The aims of the system are: to educate public on brain tumor, to assist medical expert in diagnosing process, and suggested treatment. The rules for the treatment advisory system are developed with assistance of medical experts from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center (UKMMC). Based on user testing evaluations, most experts have given acceptable satisfaction rate towards this application.
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Kaidar, S.M. et al. (2013). Brain Tumor Treatment Advisory System. In: Noah, S.A., et al. Soft Computing Applications and Intelligent Systems. M-CAIT 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40567-9_7
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