Predicting disease risks from highly imbalanced data using random forest

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Khalilia, Mohammed ^a   Chakraborty, Sounak ^b   Popescu, Mihail ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79960872876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-11-51     Document Type: Article

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