Introduction to Machine Learning in Digital Healthcare Epidemiology

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1457-1462

  Roth, Jan A ^a,b   Battegay, Manuel ^a   Juchler, Fabrice ^a   Vogt, Julia E ^c,d   Widmer, Andreas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGIST; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MACHINE LEARNING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES;

BIG DATA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 85056208374     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.265     Document Type: Review

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