Bipolar fuzzy soft mappings with application to bipolar disorders.

Bipolar disorder is a neurological disorder that consists of two main factors, i.e. mania and depression. There are two main drawbacks in clinical diagnosis of the bipolar disorder. First, bipolar disorder is mostly wrongly diagnosed as unipolar depression in clinical diagnosis. This is, because in clinical diagnosis, the first factor is often neglected due to its approach toward positivity. Consequently, the element of bipolarity vanishes and the disease becomes worse. Second, the types of bipolar disorder are mostly misdiagnosed due to similar symptoms. To overcome these problems, the bipolar fuzzy soft set (BFS-set) and bipolar fuzzy soft mappings (BFS-mappings) are useful to tackle bipolarity and to construct a strong mathematical modeling process to diagnose this disease correctly. This technique is extensive but simple as compared to existing medical diagnosis methods. A chart (relation between different types and symptoms of bipolar disorder) is provided which contains different ranges over the interval [ − 1 , 1 ]. A process of BFS-mappings is also provided to obtain correct diagnosis and to suggest the best treatment. Lastly, a generalized BFS-mapping is introduced which is helpful to keep patient's improvement record. The case study indicates the reliability, efficiency and capability of the achieved theoretical results. Further, it reveals that the connection of soft set with bipolar fuzzy set is fruitful to construct a connection between symptoms which minimize the complexity of the case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]