Improving medical decision trees by combining relevant health-care criteria

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 11782-11791

  López Vallverdú, Joan Albert ^a   Riaño, David ^a   Bohada, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Background knowledge; Decision trees; Medical decision making

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE; CORRECTNESS RATES; DECISION PROCESS; DECISION TREE INDUCTION; ECONOMIC COSTS; INDUCTION PROCESS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL SETTINGS;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG THERAPY; HEALTH; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84861819716     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.04.073     Document Type: Article

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