This study presents one of the efforts aimed at comparing the use of AHP and fuzzy logic in medical diagnosis, with the aim of determining the component that is more effective in analysis, synthesis and evaluation of medical symptoms in malaria. The more effective technology would ultimately be proposed to form the entrant technology of the inference engine in a hybrid diagnosis system.
The results show that there is no statistical difference between the AHP and fuzzy logic in terms of effectiveness of diagnosis of malaria. However, a close inspection of the system performance summary (Table 5) shows that the fuzzy logic is slightly better than the AHP in obtaining matching diagnoses with the medical experts’ diagnosis.