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On the Evaluation of Probabilistic Networks

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2001)

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As more and more probabilistic networks are being developed for medical applications, the question arises as to their value for clinical practice. Often the clinical value of a network is expressed as the percentage correct of predicted overall outcome, based upon an evaluation study using real-life patient data. In this paper, we propose another method of evaluation that focuses on intermediate outcomes of interest. We illustrate this method for a real-life probabilistic network for the staging of oesophageal cancer and show that it can provide valuable information in addition to a percentage correct.

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Linda C. van der Gaag & Silja Renooij

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  1. Linda C. van der Gaag
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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Silvana Quaglini

  2. Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825-114, Caparica, Portugal

    Pedro Barahona

  3. Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajersv ej 7D, 9220, AlborgØst, Denmark

    Steen Andreassen

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van der Gaag, L.C., Renooij, S. (2001). On the Evaluation of Probabilistic Networks. In: Quaglini, S., Barahona, P., Andreassen, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2101. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48229-6_62

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