Transductive machine learning for reliable medical diagnostics

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-32

  Kukar, Matjaž ^a   Grošelj, Ciril ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Machine learning; Medical diagnosis; Reliability; Transduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 15244340871     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-005-1101-3     Document Type: Article

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