In medical diagnosis doctors must often determine what medical tests (e.g., X-ray, blood tests) should be ordered for a patient to minimize the total cost of medical tests and misdiagnosis. In this paper, we design cost-sensitive machine learning algorithms to model this learning and diagnosis process. Medical tests are like attributes in machine learning whose values may be obtained at cost (a...

0740-7475/01/$10.00 © 2001 IEEE November–December 2001 THE 2001 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) identifies key manufacturing issues and highlights the cost of test and the associated cost of test equipment. As our analysis of prior roadmap data in Figure 1 (next page) shows, the cost of testing a transistor will equal the cost of fabricating it by around 2012. Traditi...

INTRODUCTION The inefficacy of clinical skill education during the clerkship has been reported in several studies. The present study was conducted to evaluate the competency of medical students in performing several clinical skills through an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), aiming to evaluate the quality of the existing curriculum in the clerkship phase. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

A major challenge in realizing core-based system-chips is the adoption of adequate test and diagnosis strategies. this paper focuses on the current industrial practices in test strategies for system-chips. It discusses the challenges in testing embedded cores, the testing requirements for individual cores, and their test access mechanisms. It also covers the integrated test strategies for syste...