Predictive Models for Post-Operative Life Expectancy after Thoracic Surgery

This paper studies data mining techniques used in medical diagnosis, particularly for predicting chance of survival of a patient after undergoing thoracic surgery. We discuss models built using decision trees, naive Bayes and support vector machines and explore suitability of each of the algorithms...

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Main Authors: Anatoli Nachev, T Reapy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Varepsilon Ltd. 2015-07-01
Series:Mathematical and Software Engineering
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Online Access:http://varepsilon.com/index.php/mse/article/view/1