MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC AID AND METHOD

Methods for assisting medical personnel in performing a diagnosis, diagnostic aids and computer readable media. The method initialisation step comprises: receiving a plurality of input medical texts tagged with potential medical codes; curating and validating the plurality of input medical texts to output a subset of medical texts that are validated and tagged with medical codes; and using the subset of tagged and validated medical texts to model the associations between the medical texts and the medical codes, and generating a medical text learning model based on the associations. The method diagnostic step comprises: inputting a specimen text relating to a patient into the medical text learning model; processing the specimen text using the medical text learning model; identifying suggested medical codes based on the specimen text; and outputting diagnoses, symptoms and treatments linked to the suggested medical codes for assisting medical personnel in providing a diagnosis for the patient.