Building cost-sensitive decision trees for medical applications

AI Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-287

  Freitas, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

attribute costs; classification; Cost sensitive learning; decision analysis; decision trees; misclassification costs

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE COSTS; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; COST-SENSITIVE; COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; DECISION TREE INDUCTION; MEDICAL DATA; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS;

COSTS; DECISION TREES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 80955140434     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIC-2011-0490     Document Type: Article

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