Large scale mining and evidence combination to support medical diagnosis
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To my parents and sisters, for their unflinching love and support In loving memory of my grandparents vi Acknowledgments The PhD journey is finally coming to an end. What a journey it has been! Meandering, unpredictable, chaotic but all the same exhilarating, colorful and memorable. I am thankful for the journey because it not only helped me grow as a scientist but also as a human being. And I am thankful to all the people who have been by my side for part of the journey or for it all: family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances. Without them all, I wouldn't be standing where I am today, I wouldn't be who I am today and I wouldn't have experienced as many things as I have since the journey started. First and foremost, I want to thank all my supervisors and promotors through the years: Michel van Putten, Ander de Keijzer, Christian Beckmann, Maurice van Keulen and Peter Apers. Without your guidance and encouragements, none of this would have been possible. I am also grateful to you all for teaching me what being a researcher truly entails. I am particularly grateful to Michel van Putten for providing me the quality data without which this thesis would not have been possible. A special thank you to Christian Beckmann, Maurice van Keulen and Peter Apers for stepping in when I hit rough patches during my PhD and when my continuing and finishing my PhD was by no means guaranteed. I would also like to extend a very special, heartfelt thank you to Maurice van Keulen. Thank you for believing in me and guiding me until the end. Thank you as well for being so understanding and caring at all times: I am sure it must not have been easy all the time. I would also like to thank all my committee members Guy de Tré, Ian Nab-ney, Bennie ten Haken and Michel van Putten for their time, interest in my thesis and insightful comments. And also thank you for proofreading the thesis so thoroughly and spotting all the typos for me to fix. I consider myself extremely lucky to have been part of the databases (DB) group, if only temporarily. More than colleagues, all of you have been friends viii who have made my time in the office thoroughly enjoyable and memorable. A special mention to Mena for giving me precious advice at several points …
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