Length of stay-based clustering methods for patient grouping

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 189, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-56

  El darzi, Elia ^a   Abbi, Revlin ^a   Vasilakis, Christos ^b   Gorunescu, Florin ^c   Gorunescu, Marina ^d   Millard, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^e ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Gaussian mixture model; Length of stay; Patient grouping

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349095999     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00179-6_3     Document Type: Article

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