A reference map generator clusters, into a semantic map, a set of data documents selected according to at least one criterion and associated with a medical diagnosis. A parser generates an enumeration of measurements occurring in the set of data documents. A representation generator generates for each measurement in the enumeration, a sparse distributed representation (SDR). The method includes storing, by a processor on a second computing device, in each of a plurality of memory cells on the second computing device, one of the generated SDRs. A diagnosis support module receives a document comprising a plurality of measurements. The representation generator generates a compound SDR for the document. Each of the plurality of bitwise comparison circuits determine a level of overlap between the compound SDR and the stored generated SDR. The diagnosis support module provides an identification of the medical diagnosis associated with a stored SDR.