A Study on Visual Representation of Medical Family Tree Using Genograms

DOI

10.2991/visio-13.2014.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Genogram, Medical Family Tree, Visual Representation.

Abstract

A genogram is a graphical representation of medical conditions including informa-tion on age and cause of death of family members that can be used especially to access disease risk. The main purpose of this paper is to present the outcome of a preliminary study done regarding access-ing the current use of genogram in repre-senting medical family tree data. This article seeks to enable the reader to un-derstand the basics of what a genogram is and how it can be used to help medical practitioners visually understand family health and conditions based on informa-tion gathered for the family medical tree. Initial investigations suggest that geno-grams have huge potential, as they can help a lot people in various fields to visualize and understand patients’ family medical history and look for recurring patterns of illness and behaviour.

Copyright

© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Siti Fatimah Bokhare
AU  - Wan Mohd Nazmee Wan Zainon
AU  - Abdullah Zawawi Talib
PY  - 2013/12
DA  - 2013/12
TI  - A Study on Visual Representation of Medical Family Tree Using Genograms
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Computer Graphics,Visualization, Computer Vision, and Game Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/visio-13.2014.1
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