Use abstracted patient-specific features to assist an information-theoretic measurement to assess similarity between medical cases.
Hui CaoGenevieve B. MeltonMarianthi MarkatouGeorge HripcsakPublished in: J. Biomed. Informatics (2008)
Keyphrases
- information theoretic
- specific features
- mutual information
- information theory
- medical experts
- jensen shannon divergence
- similarity measure
- theoretic framework
- medical data
- information bottleneck
- medical knowledge
- medical treatment
- medical records
- medical center
- structural features
- distance measure
- information theoretic measures
- kullback leibler divergence
- entropy measure
- patient data
- log likelihood
- patient records
- relative entropy
- medical imaging
- jensen shannon
- minimum description length
- kl divergence
- low level
- image analysis
- feature space