Designing and accuracy decision support system evaluation computerized software for diagnosis and management of soft tissue lesions of oral cavity

Correct and onetime diagnosis of soft tissue lesions of oral charity provide the possibility of controlling and proper managing for patient and prevent lesion from reaching more advanced stages. The main purpose of this research is planning and evaluating of decision support system software in order to diagnose the soft tissue lesions of oral cavity.

In designing of software system the information related to lesions base of famous books and references collected and algorithms related to each set of lesions designed. Then these algorithms entered to the decision support system soft ware. Gold Standard for evaluating of software system efficiency are different pictures of soft tissue lesions of various atlas of oral medicine, hence we choice 61 specimen of these lesions with patient’s history, clinical features and other necessary information, for evaluating of the soft ware system, efficiency. Then, with regarding to these mentioned information about every lesion, three observers including 3 specialist in oral medicine, 30 general dentist, and 30 end term student of dentistry provide their diagnosis first without and second with software system.

The number of specimen that have been diagnosed correctly by observer1, without using software system were (61specimen) and with using soft ware system were (61 specimen).The number of specimen that have been diagnosed correctly by observer 2, without using software system were(20 specimen) and with using soft ware system were (43 specimen).The number of specimen that have been diagnosed correctly by observer 3, without using software system were (36 specimen) and with using soft ware system were (50specimen).

Using algorithms and designed system are useful and reliable for diagnose and provide useful treatment plan of soft tissue lesions of oral cavity.