1. What is diagnosis?
Diagnosis is a highly cognitive task, central to many areas of business, medicine, industry and even education. The aim of diagnosis is to determine the causes of a malfunction or disease, based on observations and symptoms. Diagnostic techniques are often linked to the field in question, and are highly dependent on the characteristics of the device to be diagnosed.
In the medical field, doctors must take into account the human characteristics (psychological, physiological, etc.) of their patients when recommending complementary examinations. He must also take into account the characteristics of these examinations. Their cost and inconvenience are often taken into account. What's more, it's not uncommon, in the course of an examination that's difficult to perform, to gather information that wasn't requested a priori....
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