Confident interpretation of Bayesian decision tree ensembles for clinical applications

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 312-319

  Schetinin, Vitaly ^a   Fieldsend, Jonathan E ^b   Partridge, Derek ^b   Coats, Timohty J ^c   Krzanowski, Wojtek J ^b   Everson, Rihcard M ^b   Bailey, Trevor C ^b   Hernandez, Adolfo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes procedures; Monte Carlo method; Trees; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN DECISION TREE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUE; PROBABILISTIC INTERPRETATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 34248579160     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.880553     Document Type: Article

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