Title :
A Method for Clinical Data Reduction Based on "Weighted Entropy"
Author_Institution :
Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University
Abstract :
In a given medical diagnostic system, each clinical data item is not stochastically independent of each other. As information for diagnosis, each item has its relative significance.
Keywords :
Data processing; Decision making; Diseases; Entropy; History; Information theory; Laboratories; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Testing; Automatic Data Processing; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1978.326352
