Does GIDEON work for animal diseases? Is GIDEON adaptable to the use of veterinarians?
GIDEON is designed specifically for human disease, and we are unaware of a parallel program for animals. The existing program could not be used for diagnosis of veterinary disease for several reasons: 1. the data base does not include most of the necessary diseases 2. the Bayesian statistical matrix is based on human incidence and prevalence data; 3. the diagnostic data base is limited to signs/symptoms relevant to human disease. In theory, a similar program could be designed for veterinary use, but would require a complete set of data bases and spread sheets for each individual species, each set tied to relevant signs and symptoms for that particular species, in turn tied to additional data sets for each of over 200 countries (It’s taken us over 15 years to design, test and bring-to-market a system useful for only one species – Homo sapiens).
