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Decision Trees: An Overview and Their Use in Medicine
Abstract
In medical decision making (classification, diagnosing, etc.) there are many situations where decision must be made effectively and reliably. Conceptual simple decision making models with the possibility of automatic learning are the most appropriate for performing such tasks. Decision trees are a reliable and effective decision making technique that provide high classification accuracy with a simple representation of gathered knowledge and they have been used in different areas of medical decision making. In the paper we present the basic characteristics of decision trees and the successful alternatives to the traditional induction approach with the emphasis on existing and possible future applications in medicine.
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“Decision tree is a reliable technique to use in different areas of medical domain in order to make a right decision [76,77].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Podgorelec, V., Kokol, P., Stiglic, B., & Rozman, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Maribor (SI)
- Corresponding author
- Podgorelec, Vili
- Venue
- Journal of Medical Systems
- Published
- 2002-10
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 445-463
- ISSN
- 0148-5598 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-689X
- OpenAlex
- W1584935767
- Cited by
- 736
- References
- 44
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- FWCI
- 6.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Medical Systems (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications
- Keywords
- decision tree, clinical decision-making, diagnosis, classification, knowledge representation, inductive learning, machine learning in medicine
- MeSH terms
- Decision Trees, Humans, United States, Clinical Medicine, Decision Support Systems, Clinical
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