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Table 5 Example of a test case of the New England Journal dataset

From: Evaluation of medical decision support systems (DDX generators) using real medical cases of varying complexity and origin

Case ID

NEJM Case 34

Symptoms/Terms

Headache, cognitive changes, chest pain, dysaesthesia nausea, veteran, weigth loss, traumatic injury

Target diagnosis (expert diagnosis)

Post-traumatic stress syndrome

Expert differential diagnoses

Meningitis, encephalitis, pseudotumour cerebri, traumatic brain injury

Result Memem7 preferred diagnosis

no

Result Memem7, differential diagnosis

Encephalitis

Result IsabelHealth preferred diagnosis

Lung Neoplasm

Result Isabel, differential diagnosis

Aortic Aneurysm/Dissection, Hyperthyroidism, Relapsing Polychondritis, Coronavirus, Intracranial Hematoma, Subdural Hematoma, Arterial Aneurysms, Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease,Cirrhosis, Infectious Mononucleosis

  1. This is an example, where both DDx do not recognize the expert diagnosis