EXiT CBR: A framework for case-based medical diagnosis development and experimentation

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-91

  López, Beatriz ^a,b   Pous, Carles ^a,b   Gay, Pablo ^a   Pla, Albert ^a   Sanz, Judith ^c   Brunet, Joan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b GIRONA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBGI   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer diagnosis; Case based reasoning; Development supporting tool; Experimentation supporting tool; Medical diagnosis

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE BASED REASONING SYSTEMS; CBR; COMPLEX DATA; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTING TOOL; EXPERIMENTATION SUPPORTING TOOL; FEATURE RELEVANCE; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL VISUALIZATION; PLUG-INS; RAPID CONSTRUCTION; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; USER-FRIENDLY TOOL;

CASE BASED REASONING; DATA MINING; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NAVIGATION; VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSIS; EXIT CBR; MACHINE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79952509718     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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