Diagnostic decision support by inference networks.
Inference networks permit the combining of diagnostic evidence in such a fashion that the mutual dependence structure of different pieces of evidence is considered, and that a probabilistic measure of the uncertainty of the final diagnostic decision is provided. Operated in an automatic reasoning mode, an inference network allows a decoupling of the false negative rate from the false positive rate in diagnostic procedures involving rare event detection such as the prescreening for cervical cancer.
Bartels
P H
PH
Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Thompson
D
D
Weber
J E
JE
D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests