Medical-informed machine learning: integrating prior knowledge into medical decision systems.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinical medicine offers a promising arena for applying Machine Learning (ML) models. However, despite numerous studies employing ML in medical data analysis, only a fraction have impacted clinical care. This article underscores the importance of utilising ML in medical data analysis, recognising that ML alone may not adequately capture the full complexity of clinical data, thereby advocating for the integration of medical domain knowledge in ML.

Authors

  • Christel Sirocchi
    Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Piazza della Repubblica, 13, Urbino, 61029, Italy. Electronic address: c.sirocchi2@campus.uniurb.it.
  • Alessandro Bogliolo
    Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Piazza della Repubblica, 13, Urbino, 61029, Italy.
  • Sara Montagna
    DISI-University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy.