An Android Mobile Expert System for the Diagnosi of Pneumonia with Object-Oriented Methodology

Abstract

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites and since the health of an individual is proportional to his or her productivity and life span. Therefore, a healthy population leads to a more productive country with a higher life expectancy rate. The aim of this paper is to develop an android mobile expert system for the diagnosis of pneumonia using Imo State University Teaching Hospital as a case study in order to improve the health condition of the people using android smart phone. In this paper we have developed a mobile expert system that can be used to diagnose pneumonia patients by taking various check-up either by patient or it’s assistance that can able to take his /her medical check up by using medical peripherals and upload the report by its mobile phone to server where expert system could suggest precautionary steps or diagnosis along with patient status. We used PHP as a scripting programming language while MySQL was used as our database. To deal with this problem, a computerized system is needed. Methods used in analyzing and designing of the pneumonia problem is Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) with unified modeling language (UML)