Prognostic models in medicine. AI and statistical approaches.

IntroductionPrognosis (pro: before; gnoscere: toknow) literary means to know beforehandor, as a noun, foreknowledge. Thekey concept behind prognosis is the prediction of an event before its possibleoccurrence. One could argue that theprediction of anything without knowingabout its possible occurrence is a formof prognosis. An example of the latter isused in the evaluation of a clinician'sperformance on predicting the diseaseoutcome of a patient without knowledgeof the actual...