Intelligent decision support in medicine: Back to Bayes?

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2720-2736

  Lindgaard, Gitte ^a   Pyper, Catherine ^a   Frize, Monique ^a   Walker, Robin ^b   Boutilier, Craig ^c   Hui, Bowen ^c   Narasimhan, Sheila ^a   Folkens, Janette ^a   Winogron, Bill ^d   Egan, Peter ^d   Jones, Colin ^d  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d S4Potential   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base rates; Bayes' theorem; Decision support systems (DSS); Diagnostic error; E health intervention; Individuating information

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849095601     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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