Efficient discovery of risk patterns in medical data

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-89

  Li, Jiuyong ^a   Fu, Ada Wai chee ^b   Fahey, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association rule; Data mining; Decision tree; Epidemiology; Relative risk; Risk pattern

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE; DECISION TREE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RELATIVE RISK; RISK PATTERN;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; BENCHMARKING; DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MINING; OPTIMIZATION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 60349119970     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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