Computer-aided diagnosis of patients with mental disorders using the Copernicus system

Abstract

In the paper, a general overview of the Copernicus system is given. Copernicus is a tool for computer-aided diagnosis of mental disorders based on personality inventories. The tool was designed for the Java platform. There have been selected and implemented different quantitative groups of methods useful for differential interprofile diagnosis. The aim of this paper is to present the capabilities of the software tool created for effective and specialized analysis of psychometric data to support psychologists in diagnostic decision making.