Development of an Android-Based MedicalBot to Diagnose and Suggest Remedies for Tuberculosis

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide and the leading cause of death from an infectious disease. TB is an airborne bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which mainly attacks the lungs. People who have Tuberculosis will have to go to the hospital and in many cases, the availability of the medical specialist cannot be guaranteed. In most cases, when the medical specialist is available, the patient will not be able to afford the charges of obtaining the hospital form and test conducted. The research work focused on the three stages of Tuberculosis which are Exposure, Latent and Active stages Tuberculosis. Agile methodology method was used to carry out the methodology and the programming tools used in achieving this are HTML JAVASCRIPT, CSS PHP and SQL as the database. These tools were used to develop a medical bot page where users can interact with the system; learn more page where user can get more information about Tuberculosis and Patient Data form page where user can register after diagnosing. The system is made flexible, versatile and user-friendly. The application has been tested by various students using Android devices operating system and successful result was confirmed.