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I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of my friends and family mem-bers for all of their support during my time working on this research and beyond.Particularly, I thank my parents, Debra and Mike, and my wonderful girlfriend, Blair,for their unending support in every way throughout all of my endeavors. I would also like to thank all of my professors, especially my thesis committee members, and ev- eryone else involved in my education without whom I never would have made it this far. A special thank you goes out to Dr. Cynthia Marling, Dr. Frank Schwartz and my fellow researchers involved with this project for their generous investment of time and effort in keeping this project going and allowing me to be involved with it.This thesis presents a metric for similarity determination and case retrieval for an intelligent decision support system for diabetes management. This system is intended to greatly reduce the burden of diabetes management for both diabetic patients and their physicians through the use of case based reasoning (CBR). This research is an intermediate step toward development of a method and system to analyze a pa-tient’s current state, recognize problems in blood glucose control and suggest therapy adjustments to remedy those problems.

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Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
1INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
2BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
2.1Diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
2.1.1What is Diabetes?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
2.1.2Who Has Diabetes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
2.1.3What Are The Effects of Diabetes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
2.1.4Diabetes Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
2.2Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
2.2.1CBR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
2.3Intelligent Decision Support via Case-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . .27
2.3.1How Intelligent Decision Support Can Help. . . . . . . . . .27
2.3.2The Preliminary Clinical Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
2.3.3The Focus of This Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
3SIMILARITY DETERMINATION AND CASE RETRIEVAL. . . . . .33
3.1Case Retrieval, Matching and Ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
3.1.1Case Retrieval Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
3.1.2Matching and Ranking Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
3.2Similarity Determination and Case Retrieval in IDSDM . . . . . . . .41
3.2.1Case Structure in IDSDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
3.2.2Memory Organization in IDSDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
3.2.3Similarity Determination in IDSDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
3.2.4Case Retrieval in IDSDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
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