IEEE J Biomed Health Inform
January 2021
We defined tolerance range as the distance of observing similar disease conditions or functional status from the upper to the lower boundaries of a specified time interval. A tolerance range was identified for linear regression and support vector machines to optimize the improvement rate (defined as IR) on accuracy in predicting mortality risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using clinical notes. The corpus includes pulmonary, cardiology, and radiology reports of 15,500 patients who died between 2011 and 2017.
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