July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
6h 35m
English
book
Classification Techniques for Medical Image Analysis and Computer Aided Diagnosis
by Nilanjan Dey
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Chapter 2
Use of health-related indices and classification methods in medical data
Fragkiskos G. Bersimis; Iraklis Varlamis Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Abstract
Measurement in biological and medical scientific fields is a very important issue because a biomedical decision concerning the health status of a patient is based on a valid measurement. Health-related indices provide a reliable way of measuring a person’s behavioral or clinical health in an accurate and reliable way. From a mathematical perspective, health-related indices are quantitative variables composed by component variables, namely features that represent different aspects of a health status aiming to evaluate clinical behaviors ...