174. Minimum cost diagnosis by sequential tests
Contributed abstract in session MD-4: Cost Effectiveness, stream Regular talks.
Monday, 13:50-15:00Room: Room S3
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Tonguc Ünlüyurt
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| Industrial Engineering, Sabanci University |
Abstract
The costs incurred for the medical tests used for diagnosis are quite significant. These costs include testing costs and misclassification costs. There is potential for decreasing such costs by determining the order of tests in a better way. Essentially, the next test to apply may depend on the results of the previously executed tests and there is typically probabilistic information regarding the outcome of the tests. The goal is to find a strategy that minimizes a performance metric such as the total expected cost. There are some published papers that study related problems in the medical testing context. On the other hand, there is quite a number of studies on Sequential Testing problem where a similar problem setting is considered for various other applications. In this talk, our goal is to review this problem setting with different variations. We will discuss the results from the literature and possible research directions towards applications in medical testing.
Keywords
- Decision support
- Cost effectiveness and health economics
- Optimization algorithms
Status: accepted
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