Abstract:Clinical data bases typically include, for each patient, many heterogeneous features, for example blood exams, the clinical history before the onset of the disease, the evolution of the symptoms, the results of imaging exams, and many others. Using subsets of these features, one can measure the similarity between two patients in several different manners. We here propose to exploit a recently developed statistical approach, the information imbalance, to compare these different similarity measures, and quantify… Show more
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