Confidence predictions for the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 296, Issue , 2009, Pages 175-184

  Papadopoulos, Harris ^a   Gammerman, Alex ^b   Vovk, Volodya ^b  

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; HEALTH; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PAIN DIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONFIDENCE PREDICTIONS; CONFORMAL PREDICTIONS; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORTS; MEDICAL FIELDS; MOST LIKELY;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 67651251245     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0221-4_22     Document Type: Article

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