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Practical considerations regarding classification learning for clinical diagnosis and therapy advice in oncology
Author(s) -
Flávio S. Corrêa da Silva,
Frederico Costa,
Antônio Francisco Iemma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ict express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.733
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2405-9595
DOI - 10.1016/j.icte.2020.03.004
Subject(s) - radiation therapy , advice (programming) , medicine , medical physics , clinical oncology , intensive care medicine , oncology , computer science , cancer , programming language
In the present article the relationship between machine learning and medicine is reviewed, in order to assess the potential for the practical use of machine learning for diagnosis and therapy advice. The considerations built herein are particularly suitable for oncology, in which early diagnostics is particularly important for the success of treatments, and therapy is often based on chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which have harmful side effects.

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