Semi-automatic learning of simple diagnostic scores utilizing complexity measures |
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Authors: | Atzmueller Martin Baumeister Joachim Puppe Frank |
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Affiliation: | Department of Computer Science, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. atzmueller@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de |
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Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: Knowledge acquisition and maintenance in medical domains with a large application domain ontology is a difficult task. To reduce knowledge elicitation costs, semi-automatic learning methods can be used to support the domain specialists. They are usually not only interested in the accuracy of the learned knowledge: the understandability and interpretability of the learned models is of prime importance as well. Then, often simple models are more favorable than complex ones. METHODS AND MATERIAL: We propose diagnostic scores as a promising approach for the representation of simple diagnostic knowledge, and present a method for inductive learning of diagnostic scores. It can be incrementally refined by including background knowledge. We present complexity measures for determining the complexity of the learned scores. RESULTS: We give an evaluation of the presented approach using a case base from the fielded system SonoConsult. We further discuss that the user can easily balance between accuracy and complexity of the learned knowledge applying the presented measures. CONCLUSIONS: We argue that semi-automatic learning methods can support the domain specialist efficiently when building (diagnostic) knowledge systems from scratch. The presented complexity measures allow for an intuitive assessment of the learned patterns. |
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