Identifying homogenous subgroups for individual patient meta-analysis based on Rough Set Theory

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3434-3437

  Gil Herrera, Eleazar ^a   Tsalatsanis, Athanasios ^a   Kumar, Ambuj ^a   Mhaskar, Rahul ^a   Miladinovic, Branko ^a   Yalcin, Ali ^b   Djulbegovic, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

HOMOGENEOUS GROUP; INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; PERSONALIZED HEALTHCARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROUGH SET THEORY (RST); STATISTICAL HETEROGENEITIES; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE AGED; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929493973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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