LifeBot

A Telegram Bot supported by NLP Engine to find disease from symptoms, search for possible self care, medications, disease details and specialization. Also shows the list of nearby doctors who can help in this regard. APIMEDIC APIs are used for finding disease details from symptoms and Google Search has been used for finding possible medical care that can be given to patient.

Live Demo: https://tinyurl.com/bbshack249 (English), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lzG7TvwUzI (Hindi)

Installation

Install all dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Run

• Creata a telegram bot wrapper usingTelegram Bot Builder (GodFather Bot of Telegram) and obtain the bot Token.
• Put Token in bot.py
• Run Bot Server by following command,

python3 bot.py

• Communicate to Chat Bot using Telegram Chat Bot.

Configuration

This API uses APIMEDIC Api for medical queries. To access APIMEDIC api Sign Up on https://apimedic.com, and set following environment variables with credentials available at https://apimedic.com/apikeys.

export username=<your_user_name>
export password=<your_api_key_password>

Start the server

Start the API server using

python3 server.py

Endpoints

• / - Default Page
• /symptoms - List of all available symptoms
• /disease/<symptom_id>/<gender>/<year> - Most probable disease based on given symptoms. Concatenate multiple Symptoms using +.
  Example: /disease/9+10/male/1998 returns

  {
      "profName": "Foodborne illness", 
      "simpleName": "Food poisoning", 
      "status": "ok"
  }
  

• /condition/<disease> - Medical Conditions for given disease.
  Example: /condition/influenza returns

{
  "details": "Flu is primarily treated with rest and fluid intake to allow the body to fight the infection on its own. Paracetamol may help cure the symptoms but NSAIDs should be avoided. An annual vaccine can help prevent the flu and limit its complications.", 
  "disease": "influenza", 
  "medications": "Decongestant, Cough medicine, Nonsteroidal anti-Inflammatory drug, Analgesic, and Antiviral drug", 
  "selfcare": "Bed rest and Throat lozenge", 
  "specialists": "Paediatrician and Primary Care Provider (PCP)", 
  "status": "ok"
}

• /sentence/<text> - Detect symptoms from text and return medical conditions.
  Example: /sentence/I am having back pain returns

{
  "details": "Not every disc needs intervention. When required, treatment includes medication, physiotherapy and possibly surgery.", 
  "disease": "disc herniation", 
  "medications": "Nonsteroidal anti-Inflammatory drug", 
  "selfcare": "Heating pad and Physical exercise", 
  "specialists": "Orthopaedic Surgeon, Physiotherapist, Neurologist, Neurosurgeon, Primary Care Provider (PCP), and Emergency Medicine Doctor", 
  "status": "ok"
}

• /doctor/location - List of all nearest doctor from Given Location
  Example: /doctor/shaheed nagar bhubaneswar returns

{
  "doctors": [
    "Das Dr Bijay Ketan", 
    "Dr J R Dash", 
    "Dr B B Nanda"
  ]
}

NLP Engine

NLP Engine is hosted on Heroku and use node-nlp library for Natural Language Processing. It takes statement from user and returns possible symptoms over a REST API.

For Installation:

cd NLP
npm install
heroku create
git push heroku master

Running at Localhost go to localhost:5000/text=

Endpoint: https://fathomless-ridge-45332.herokuapp.com/text=<STATEMENT_HERE>

Chat Bot

Chat Bot is designed using Telegram Bot Wrapper. It get data from Flask server and communicate with user accordingly. Currently supports 4 languages namely, English, Hindi, Marathi, Bangla but can be extended to all 24 Indian languages supported by Google Translate API.

Frontend Prototype

Created using Codeigniter, a UI prototype for a native app for the Bot.

Credits

• Google Search for finding medical conditions and nearest doctor from location.
• Google Translate for translating messages from English to Other languages and vice versa.
• APIMedic API for finding disease based on Symptoms
• node-nlp library for Natural Language Processing
• python-telegram-bot Wrapper for creating chat bot for Telegram.
• Codeignitor for designing UI Prototype of Native app for the Bot.

LICENSE

• GPLv3