An evaluation of machine-learning methods for predicting pneumonia mortality

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-138

  Cooper, Gregory F ^a   Aliferis, Constantin F ^a   Ambrosino, Richard ^a   Aronis, John ^b   Buchanan, Bruce G ^b   Caruana, Richard ^c   Fine, Michael J ^a   Glymour, Clark ^d   Gordon, Geoffrey ^c   Hanusa, Barbara H ^a   Janosky, Janine E ^a   Meek, Christopher ^d   Mitchell, Tom ^c   Richardson, Thomas ^d   Spirtes, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical databases Computer based prediction; Machine learning; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DISEASES; ERRORS; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLINICAL DATABASES; COMPUTER BASED PREDICTION; PATIENTS; PNEUMONIA MORTALITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031080885     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(96)00367-3     Document Type: Article

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