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12th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'99)
Evaluating Breastfeeding Advantages Using Decision Trees
Stamford, Connecticut
June 18-June 20
ISBN: 0-7695-0234-2
Spela Hleb Babic, University of Maribor
Matej Sprogar, University of Maribor
Molan Zorman, University of Maribor
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor
Dusanka Micetic Turk, Maribor Teaching Hospital
Decision support systems that help physicians are becoming very important part of medical decision making. They are based on different models and the best of them are providing an explanation together with an accurate, reliable and quick response. One of the most viable among models are decision trees, already successfully used for many medical decision making purpose. Although effective and reliable, the traditional decision tree construction approach still contains several deficiencies. The real-world problem that was a background of our research, has a special structure. According to the same attributes we have to determine five different decisions. We decided for two different approaches: the traditional decision trees and a completely new approach of multiple-outcome decision making where we get a decision vector as a result of the decision tree. For constructing such decision trees we used evolutionary programming and we have developed a SW tool named DecRain. A comparison between developed models and obtained results has shown that our approach can be considered as a good choice for different kinds of real-world medical decision making.
Citation:
Spela Hleb Babic, Matej Sprogar, Molan Zorman, Peter Kokol, Dusanka Micetic Turk, "Evaluating Breastfeeding Advantages Using Decision Trees," cbms, pp.144, 12th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'99), 1999
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