Using sensitivity analysis for efficient quantification of a belief network

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-247

  Coupé, Veerle M H ^a   Peek, Niels ^b   Ottenkamp, Jaap ^c   Habbema, J Dik F ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belief networks; Quantification; Refinement; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BAYES THEOREM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BELIEF NETWORK;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 0032586121     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(99)00024-X     Document Type: Article

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