Does size really matter - Using a decision tree approach for comparison of three different databases from the medical field of acute appendicitis

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 465-477

  Zorman, Milan ^a   Eich, Hans Peter ^b   Stiglic, Bruno ^a   Ohmann, Christian ^b   Lenic, Mitja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute abdominal pain; Acute appendicitis; Decision trees; Machine learning; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0036777939     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016461301710     Document Type: Article

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