Machine Learning for Emergency Department Management

2. Machine Learning And Predicting Patient Los In Ed

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in medical data being collected (Hermon & Williams, 2014). Data sets are frequently characterized by incompleteness, incorrectness, inexactness and sparseness. These problems are quite common in the medical field. This field requires human experts with a high level of expertise and able to maintain a high degree of concentration. Therefore, the use of machine learning techniques becomes indispensable for the development of medical decision support tools that model expert behavior, clinical interpretation and analysis, and to save time for practitioners. Machine learning has been an active research field finding success in many different medical areas (Liu, Lei, Yin, Zhang, Naijun, & El-Darzi, 2006; Bolon-Canedo, Remeseiro, Alonso-Betanzos, & Campilho, 2016).