Design, implementation, and evaluation of the computer-aided clinical decision support system based on learning-to-rank: collaboration between physicians and machine learning in the differential diagnosis process

Table 2 Example of the predicted results of our system

	Inputted symptoms			Score	Predicted diseases
a	Fever		1	1.61	Acute HIV-1 infection
b	Headache		2	1.51	Polyneuropathy
c	Sore throat		3	0.91	Acute viral meningitis
d	Consciousness indistinctness		4	0.88	West Nile fever
e	Chills		5	0.77	Cat-scratch disease
f	Muscles ache		6	0.46	Acute Q fever
g	Swallowing pain	→	7	0.23	Hepatitis A
h	Pharyngolaryngeal abnormality		8	0.21	Chronic fatigue syndrome
i	Aphasia		9	0.13	Sepsis
j	Apraxia		10	0.12	Toxoplasmosis
k	Fatigue				…
l	Muscle weakness
m	Anorexia
n	Weight loss
o	Dementia

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