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This paper presents an application of machine learning to the problem of classifying patients with glaucoma into one of two classes:stable and progressive glaucoma. The novelty of the work is the use of new features for the data analysis combined with machine learning techniques to classify the medical data. The paper describes the new features and the results of using decision trees to separate stable and progressive cases. Furthermore, we show the results of using an incremental learning algorithm for tracking stable and progressive cases over time. In both cases we used a dataset of progressive and stable glaucoma patients obtained from a glaucoma clinic.
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Lazarescu, M., Turpin, A., Venkatesh, S. (2002). An Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Glaucomatous Progression. In: Caelli, T., Amin, A., Duin, R.P.W., de Ridder, D., Kamel, M. (eds) Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition. SSPR /SPR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70659-3_25
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