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David Blokh
Department of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Research Article
The Use of an Information-Theory based Diagnostic Rule for Hip Fracture Evaluation and Prediction
Author(s): David Blokh, Ilia Stambler*, Joseph Gitarts and Eliyahu H. Mizrahi
Objective: The present work explores the application of a new methodology, based on an information theoretical measure, the normalized mutual information, for hip fracture risk evaluation and prediction. Methods: A dataset on geriatric hip fracture patients was analyzed, including diagnostic parameters routinely available to physicians, such as physiological, biochemical, immunological and hematological parameters. Information-theory based methods were utilized to establish correlations between the parameters and to construct a diagnostic decision rule for hip fracture risk evaluation at different age groups. Results: The use of information-theoretical methods, utilizing normalized mutual information, revealed the exact amount of information that various diagnostic parameters contained about the presence.. View more»