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, el Hassouni, Ali, Mok, Kwongyen, Ghassemi, Marzyeh, Szolovits, Peter
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112991
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