Abstract：
:This paper presents a tutorial introduction to the handling of uncertainty and decision-making in medical reasoning systems. It focuses on the central role of uncertainty in all of medicine and identifies the major themes that arise in research papers. It then reviews simple Bayesian formulations of the problem and pursues the generalization to the Bayesian network methods that are popular today. Decision making is presented from the decision analysis viewpoint, with brief mention of recently-developed methods. The paper concludes with review of more abstract characterization of uncertainty, and anticipates the growing importance of analytic and "data mining" techniques as growing amounts of clinical data become widely available.
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Methods Inf Medjournal_title
Methods of information in medicineauthors
Szolovits Psubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-03-01 00:00:00pages
111-21issue
1-2eissn
0026-1270issn
2511-705Xpii
95010111journal_volume
34pub_type
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3414/ME9126
更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3414/ME9235
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3414/ME14-01-0131
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doi：10.1055/s-0039-1695718
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Methods of information in medicine
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doi：10.3414/ME14-01-0093
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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