A Structured Dataset of Disease-Symptom Associations to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy

TL;DR

This paper introduces a systematically compiled, structured disease-symptom dataset from verified sources, aimed at enhancing diagnostic tools, especially for underrepresented languages like Bangla, supporting AI and clinical decision-making.

Contribution

It provides a verified, structured disease-symptom dataset from multiple sources, including Bangla language data, to improve medical AI applications and diagnostic accuracy.

Findings

The dataset covers numerous diseases and symptoms with verified associations.

It enables machine learning applications for disease prediction.

Supports development of multilingual medical informatics tools.

Abstract

Disease-symptom datasets are significant and in demand for medical research, disease diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and AI-driven health management applications. These datasets help identify symptom patterns associated with specific diseases, thus improving diagnostic accuracy and enabling early detection. The dataset presented in this study systematically compiles disease-symptom relationships from various online sources, medical literature, and publicly available health databases. The data was gathered through analyzing peer-reviewed medical articles, clinical case studies, and disease-symptom association reports. Only the verified medical sources were included in the dataset, while those from non-peer-reviewed and anecdotal sources were excluded. The dataset is structured in a tabular format, where the first column represents diseases, and the remaining columns represent symptoms. Each symptom cell contains a binary value, indicating whether a symptom is associated with a disease. Thereby, this structured representation makes the dataset very useful for a wide range of applications, including machine learning-based disease prediction, clinical decision support systems, and epidemiological studies. Although there are some advancements in the field of disease-symptom datasets, there is a significant gap in structured datasets for the Bangla language. This dataset aims to bridge that gap by facilitating the development of multilingual medical informatics tools and improving disease prediction models for underrepresented linguistic communities. Further developments should include region-specific diseases and further fine-tuning of symptom associations for better diagnostic performance