Prediction using patient comparison vs. modeling: A case study for mortality prediction

Information in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) can be used to generate accurate predictions for the occurrence of a variety of health states, which can contribute to more pro-active interventions. The very nature of EMRs does make the application of off-the-shelf machine learning techniques diffic...

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Main Authors: Hoogendoorn, Mark (Author), el Hassouni, Ali (Author), Mok, Kwongyen (Author), Ghassemi, Marzyeh (Contributor), Szolovits, Peter (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-12-29T19:45:54Z.
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