An application of one-class support vector machine to nosocomial infection detection.

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Published in Stud Health Technol Inform on January 01, 2004

Authors

Gilles Cohen1, Mélanie Hilario, Hugo Sax, Stéphane Hugonnet, Christian Pellegrini, Antoine Geissbuhler

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Informatics Service, University Hospital of Geneva, Rue Micheli-du-Crest 24, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Gilles.Cohen@sim.hcuge.ch

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