Impact of censoring on learning Bayesian networks in survival modelling

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 199-217

  Štajduhar, Ivan ^a   Dalbelo Bašić, Bojana ^b   Bogunović, Nikola ^b  

^a University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Censoring; Medical decision support; Prognostic models in medicine; Structure learning; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CENSORING; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT; PROGNOSTIC MODELS IN MEDICINE; STRUCTURE LEARNING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; EDUCATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; SIMULATORS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CAUSAL MODELING; CENSORSHIP; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; UNCERTAINTY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350728384     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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