April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
10h 40m
English
Ilia Nouretdinova, Tony Bellottib and Alexander Gammermana, aComputer Learning Research Centre, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, bMathematics Department, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
There are several important advantages in applying conformal predictors (CP) in medical diagnostics. First of all, CPs provide valid measures of confidence in the diagnosis; this is often a crucial advantage for medical decision-making since it allows the estimation of risk of an erroneous clinical decision for an individual patient. Moreover, the risk of clinical errors may be controlled by an acceptable level of confidence ...
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