Expert System to Diagnose Disease in Toddlers Using Dempster Shafer Method

Abstract

Children, especially toddlers at the age of two months to five years old are more susceptible to disease. Limited information about diseases that attack children makes it difficult for parents to predict the disease that will suffer from their children. Therefore we need an expert system  that can predict the disease suffered by children, and the method used in this study is the Dempster Shafer method. The Dempster Shafer method can be implemented into an expert system to combine separate symptoms (evidence) in calculating the probability of a disease. Based on the test results using 250 test data, the accuracy of the expert system for diagnosing diseases in children under five years old using Dempster Shafer method is 94%.

Keywords : Expert System, Dempster Shafer, Disease in Toddlers