Expert System for Diagnosing Scabies using the Case Based Reasoning Method

Abstract

Health is very important for humans, people who don't take care of their health can trigger diseases. Currently, diseases that are not given enough attention are skin diseases, one of which is scabies . Scabies is a disease caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabies which is characterized by scabs and itching of the skin. Scabies disease is easily spread either directly or indirectly. At present, people do not really care about scabies because scabies has symptoms that are just ordinary itching, this happens due to the lack of public knowledge about scabies. To obtain a diagnosis of scabies, you can usually consult a doctor, but due to the limited time for consulting a doctor, there are often problems that make it difficult to obtain information on a diagnosis of scabies. Therefore an expert system was designed to find out and get information quickly about the symptoms that are felt associated with scabies. The method used in expert systems is Case Based Reasoning (CBR). The CBR method is to solve problems by recalling the same or similar events (similarities) that have occurred in the past and then using knowledge or information. This expert system can provide solutions for scabies with the diagnosis process being carried out efficiently and saving time. This web-based expert system application was built using the PHP and MySQL programming languages