LEAD a methodology for learning efficient approaches to medical diagnosis.

LEAD a methodology for learning efficient approaches to medical diagnosis.

Determining the most efficient use of diagnostic tests is one of the complex issues facing medical practitioners. With the soaring cost of healthcare, particularly in the US, there is a critical need for cutting costs of diagnostic tests, while achieving a higher level of diagnostic accuracy. This p...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 10, 2 (2006).
Main Author: Fakih, S.J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Markov decision processes.
Comprehensive performance measure.
Data mining.
Diagnostic information extraction.
Diagnostic performance.
Learning efficient approaches to medical diagnosis.
Medical databases.
Nonhomogenous performance measures.
Reinforcement learning.
Rough set theory.
Solitary pulmonary nodule.
Testing costs.
Utility theory.