This study applied artificial intelligence to help nurses address problems and receive instructions through information technology. Nurses make diagnoses according to professional knowledge, clinical experience, and even instinct. Without comprehensi...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
May 6, 2015
We identify a unique viewpoint on the collective behaviour of intelligent agents. We first develop a highly general abstract model for the possible future lives these agents may encounter as a result of their decisions. In the context of these possib...
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
May 1, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Regular HIV RNA testing for all HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is expensive and has low yield since most tests are undetectable. Selective testing of those at higher risk of failure may improve efficiency. We investi...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2015
Although diagnostic expert systems using a knowledge base which models decision-making of traditional experts can provide important information to non-experts, they tend to duplicate the errors made by experts. Decision-Theoretic Model (DTM) is there...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: Accurately planning the procurement volume is an effective measure for controlling the medicine inventory cost. Due to uncertain demand it is difficult to make accurate decision on procurement volume. As to the biomedicine sensitive to ti...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Treatment recommendation is a nontrivial task--it requires not only domain knowledge from evidence-based medicine, but also data insights from descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis. A single treatment recommendation system is usually trai...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Reasoning conducted in clinical practice is manifested through different and often combined reasoning and learning strategies, adjusted to the characteristics of the available information, the medical professional's experience and skills, and the ava...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Personalized medicine is a broad and rapidly advancing field of health care that is informed by each person's unique clinical, genetic, genomic, and environmental information. Health care that embraces personalized medicine is an integrated, coordina...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jan 1, 2015
We first present a feature selection method based on a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network, called feature selection MLP (FSMLP). We explain how FSMLP can select essential features and discard derogatory and indifferent features. Such a method...