Medicine

Medicine deals with a complex and imperfectly understood system: the human body. While we know a lot about how the body works in health and disease, there remain many info-gaps in our knowledge. Furthermore, the information which a physician has about each individual patient is incomplete. Info-gap theory has been employed to support medical decisions of various sorts.

  • Yakov Ben-Haim, 2006, Info-gap Decision Theory: Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty, 2nd edition, Academic Press, London.
    Chapter 3: Robustness and Opportuneness.
    ... Section 3.2.12: Drug selection.

  • Yakov Ben-Haim, Miriam Zacksenhouse, Carmit Keren and Clifford C. Dacso, 2009, Do We Know How to Set Decision Thresholds for Diabetes?  Medical Hypotheses, 73: 189-193.  Working paper.

  • Yakov Ben-Haim, Clifford C. Dacso, Jonathon Carrasco and Nithin Rajan, 2009, Heterogeneous Uncertainties in Cholesterol Management, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 50: 1046-1065.  Working paper.

  • Yakov Ben-Haim and Clifford C. Dacso, 2010, Info-gap decision theory and its potential applications in the clinic, an editorial, Personalized Medicine, vol. 7, #1, pp.1-3.

  • Questions or comments on info-gap theory? Contact me at yakov@technion.ac.il