The primary goal of diagnostic nuclear medicine is to provide complete and accurate reports without equivocation or disclaimers. If specific clinical questions cannot be answered because radiopharmaceutical extravasation, the imaging study may have repeated. decision reimage based on several factors including quality images, additional patient radiation dose, burden, administrative constraints....

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine a diagnostic classification scheme using a decision tree based model. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted as a retrospective case-control study in Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran during 2001 to 2009. Data, including demographic and clinical-pathological characteristics, were uniformly collected from 624 females, 312 of them we...

PURPOSE This study examines how the information provided by a diagnostic decision support system for clinical cases of varying diagnostic difficulty affects physicians' diagnostic performance. METHODS A national sample of 67 internists, 35 family physicians, and 6 other physicians used the Quick Medical Reference (QMR) diagnostic decision support system to assist them in the diagnosis of writ...

We address the problem of embedding a model-based diagnostic system representation within a processor with limited memory (as is typical of most real-world aerospace systems). Given a Boolean diagnostic model f in which we have a probability distribution over fault likelihoods, we describe a method for approximately generating an embedded representation of f by learning a decision tree that enc...