ABSTRACT
Xiang Sean Zhou, Yiqiang Zhan, Zhigang Peng, Maneesh Dewan, Bing Jian, Arun Krishnan
Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, Pennsylvania
Martin Harder, Raphael Schwarz, Lars Lauer, Heiko Meyer
Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
Stefan Grosskopf, Ute Feuerlein, and Hendrik Ditt
Siemens Healthcare, Forchheim, Germany
Cost-sensitive learning is a very relevant topic in the domain of medical decision support. There are many types of costs, both monetary and nonmonetary. The non-monetary costs include factors that may be difficult to quantify, such as side effects of drugs, tests, or therapy, or quality of life (QoL) [18] impact due to medical interventions, etc.
