Chapter 21: An ensemble classifier approach for thyroid disease diagnosis using the AdaBoostM algorithm

Giuseppe Ciaburro    Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Aversa, Italy

Abstract

The use of information technology in medicine has been a reality for some time now, and the continuous progress that is taking place is reflected in the technologies applied to the care of people who become increasingly avant-garde. These technologies are used with the fundamental objective of improving the health and life expectancy of the world population. Ensemble learning methods provide more correct decision-making processes, at the expense of greater complexity and a loss of interpretability, ...

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