TY - JOUR
T1 - Prognostic methods in medicine
AU - Lucas, P. J.
AU - Abu-Hanna, A.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Prognosis--the prediction of the course and outcome of disease processes--plays an important role in patient management tasks like diagnosis and treatment planning. As a result, prognostic models form an integral part of a number of systems supporting these tasks. Furthermore, prognostic models constitute instruments to evaluate the quality of health care and the consequences of health care policies by comparing predictions according to care norms with actual results. Approaches to developing prognostic models vary from using traditional probabilistic techniques, originating from the field of statistics, to more qualitative and model-based techniques, originating from the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, various approaches to constructing prognostic models, with emphasis on methods from the field of AI, are described and compared
AB - Prognosis--the prediction of the course and outcome of disease processes--plays an important role in patient management tasks like diagnosis and treatment planning. As a result, prognostic models form an integral part of a number of systems supporting these tasks. Furthermore, prognostic models constitute instruments to evaluate the quality of health care and the consequences of health care policies by comparing predictions according to care norms with actual results. Approaches to developing prognostic models vary from using traditional probabilistic techniques, originating from the field of statistics, to more qualitative and model-based techniques, originating from the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In this paper, various approaches to constructing prognostic models, with emphasis on methods from the field of AI, are described and compared
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0933-3657(98)00047-5
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0933-3657(98)00047-5
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 10082176
SN - 0933-3657
VL - 15
SP - 105
EP - 119
JO - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
JF - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
IS - 2
ER -