Explaining clinical decisions by extracting regularity patterns

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 397-408

  Bielza, Concha ^a   Fernández del Pozo, Juan A ^a   Lucas, Peter J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Influence diagrams; Knowledge analysis; Knowledge explanation; Medical decision support systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLINICAL DECISIONS; KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE EXPLANATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 36249026459     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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