Prospects for automated diagnosis of verbal autopsies
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Prospects for automated diagnosis of verbal autopsies
Verbal autopsy is a method for assessing probable causes of death from lay reporting of signs, symptoms and circumstances by family members or caregivers of a deceased person. Several methods of automated diagnoses of causes of death from standardized verbal autopsy questionnaires have been developed recently (Inter-VA, Tariff, Random Forest and King-Lu). Their performances have been assessed i...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1741-7015
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-12-18