Modeling paradigms for medical diagnostic decision support: A survey and future directions

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3029-3049

  Wagholikar, Kavishwar B ^a,c   Sundararajan, Vijayraghavan ^b   Deshpande, Ashok W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING   (India)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support; Computer aided; Medical diagnosis; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN LEARNING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUZZY SET THEORY; HEURISTIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC DECISION SUPPORT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; PATIENT INFORMATION; RULE BASED SYSTEM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA MINING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FUZZY LOGIC; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 84867322270     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9780-4     Document Type: Article

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