MTO Colloquium
Tuesday, September 30 at 12:45 hrs in WZ 103
Prof. dr. Chris Snijders (Eindhoven University of Technology)
‘Diagnosis by phone. Clinical versus statistical prediction of
Actinic Keratosis and Basal Cell Carcinoma’
The literature on clinical versus statistical prediction compares how
well human experts predict, compared to a (statistical or other) model that
uses the same inputs. Though empirical evidence seems to favor the
models, many questions remain unanswered. The presentation will
consider the diagnosis of two precursors of skin cancer: Actinic Keratosis
and Basal Cell Carcinoma, based on data collected at the Catharina
Hospital in Eindhoven. Our analysis shows, among other things,
promising results for model based prediction. For potential patients,
decent diagnoses can be achieved after answering a couple of relatively
straightforward questions, which allows implementing a diagnostic tool
as standard phone application.