Learning Bayesian networks from survival data using weighting censored instances

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 613-622

  Štajduhar, Ivan ^a   Dalbelo Bašić, Bojana ^b  

^a University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Medical decision support; Prognostic model; Survival analysis; Weighting censored instances

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL MEDICINE; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCES; CONSTRAINT-BASED; COX REGRESSION; DATA SETS; HILL CLIMBING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL DECISIONS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PROGNOSTIC MODEL; SIMULATION STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL DATA;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA HANDLING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MEDICINE; MODEL STRUCTURES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONSTRAINT BASED CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE ALGORITHM; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEARCH AND SCORE HILL CLIMBING ALGORITHM; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; WEIGHTING CENSORED INSTANCES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; POPULATION GROUP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954144317     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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