Validation of an ontological medical decision support system for patient treatment using a repository of patient data: Insights into the value of machine learning

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Khan, Atif ^a   Doucette, John A ^a   Cohen, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated knowledge inference; Machine learning; Medical decision support system; Ontology based knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED KNOWLEDGE INFERENCE; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS; ONTOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC REASONING; REAL-TIME DECISION MAKING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PELLETIZING; SEMANTICS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84885623290     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2508037.2508049     Document Type: Article

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