Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Technoscience Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non- commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology ISSN : 2456-3307 (www.ijsrcseit.com) doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT2283108 122 An Online Doctor’s and Patient help Desk Assistant for Early Diagnoses of Prostate Cancer in the Rural Areas of Bayelsa State Wisdom Omote, Biralatei Fawei*, Nicholas Dienagha Department of Computer Science, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, PMB581, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Article Info Publication Issue : Volume 8, Issue 5 September-October-2022 Page Number : 122-129 Article History Accepted: 10 Sep 2022 Published: 25 Sep 2022 ABSTRACT The shortage and unavailability of medical practitioners particularly medical doctors in the world has created deficiency in the health sector, which is even more prevalent in the developing countries. This has made rural dwellers in developing countries to experience chronic diseases like prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and so on which leads to mortality and disabilities. Prostate cancer is a male disease that occurs in the malignant tumors of the prostate epithelium. In this paper, we present an online doctor’s and patient help desk assistant for the diagnoses of prostate cancer at its early stage in the rural areas where there are no health professionals. The system offers medical assistance to patients by providing diagnostic information of their status based on a set of questions answered with respect to prostate cancer. The system is developed with Java Expert System Shell (JESS) alongside other web programming tools. The result from the system evaluation with 50 participants show greater than 95 percent accuracy on expert confirmation. Keywords : Prostate Cancer, Expert System, JESS, Disease I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, the rising services provided by the Internet technology has paved way in providing different kinds of services to mankind which has been making life easier by the day. In same manner the computer technology also has gone through significant changes which has influenced many areas of humanity. One of this aspect of life that has been positively affected by the use and application of computer technology is the healthcare industry, where the application of specialized machines like surgical robots, wireless body area network for sensing and sending patient health information, and software. Some of such software are derived from a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) known as “Expert System or Rule-based System or Knowledge-based system” [11]. An expert system is an intelligent computer program which captures the knowledge of a human expert and applies the captured knowledge in solving real life problems in an automated fashion. The mode of operation of such systems simply displays an expertise level of operation specific to the subject matter. The main purpose of knowledge- based system is to make the knowledge of human expert and their experiences to be more commonly