An expert system for early diagnose of vitamins and minerals deficiency on the body

Abstract

Mineral and vitamin plays an important role for the human body. Vitamins are useful for the growth process, the setting, and the improvement of body functions while mineral plays a role in several stages of reactions energy metabolism, growth, and maintenance of the body. The importance of vitamins and minerals resulted in the need to be maintained levels of vitamins and minerals in the body. Many do not know that the symptoms are felt in the body is the result of a deficiency of a particular vitamin or mineral that is often too late for the unknown and the resulting need for a doctor's visit. Deficiency of the vitamin and mineral can be determined earlier using science field of artificial intelligence through expert systems. An expert system vitamin and mineral deficiencies is composed of 11 vitamins and 6 minerals. From the acquisition of knowledge by an expert, found 46 symptoms and generates 35 rules represented using decision tables. Search method uses a forward chaining while deficiencies to deal with the uncertainties arising used method of application Mycin certainty factor. To facilitate the users, the system is made by using mobile technology. Based on testing performed to the expert can be proved that the expert system built able to diagnose the deficiency of vitamins and minerals with a value of 100% accuracy the truth. By knowing deficiency that occurs then the handling and prevention can be done in a timely fashion.