Abstract: |
In the field of medicine it is of vital importance to accurately predict the presence of a disease (diagnostic prediction)or the future occurrence of a certain event (prognostic prediction). Genetic programming provides a method to develop suchprediction models in an optimal way. In this paper we discuss as an example the diagnostic prediction of pulmonary embolism (PE),and compare the method of genetic programming with the logistic regression technique, which is well-known in the medical field. |
