Table 8 Performance on test case (Table 7, case id 13947) - The left table shows the performance of the HRL agent, which informs an incorrect disease after an investigation of 8 turns, and the right table illustrates the performance of the proposed agent (A-SIDDA), which diagnoses the patient correctly through a more relevant symptom investigation of only 7 turns

Patient: Hi, I am experiencing arm pain since few days.

What could be its reason ?

Patient: Hi, I am experiencing arm pain since few days.

What could be its reason ?

Conversation

Conversation

Agent: Do you also feel neck pain ?

Agent: Do you feel ache all over?

Patient: Yes, I am feeling neck pain.

Patient: No, I do not feel ache.

Agent: Are you experiencing any skin itching ?

Agent: Are you experiencing neck pain?

Patient: No, I do not have skin itching issue.

Patient: Yes, I do.

Agent: Have you observed skin lesion ?

Agent: Do you have headache?

Patient: No.

Patient: No.

Agent: Do you have skin rash problem ?

Agent: Are you feeling back pain?

Patient: No, I do not have this issue.

Patient: I do not have this problem.

Agent: Do you have eye pain ?

Agent: Have you felt loss of sensation?

Patient: No.

Patient: Yes, I am feeling loss of sensation.

Agent: Have you felt anxiety and nervousness ?

Agent: Have you experienced paresthesia?

Patient: I am not feeling anxious.

Patient: I have not felt paresthesia.

Agent: Do you have facial pain ?

Agent: Are you feeling leg pain?

Patient: No.

Patient: I do not have leg pain.

Agent: Are you feeling leg pain ?

Agent : You are most likely to have carpal tunnel syndrome

Patient: No, I am not feeling leg pain.

Agent : You are most likely to have Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.