Marco Ragni, Daniel Brand, Nicolas Riesterer
The Predictive Power of Spatial Relational Reasoning Models: A New Evaluation Approach
Frontiers in psychology
inflammatory bowel disease present bewildering array disease manifestations whose overall impact patient health difficult disentangle multitude disease complications therapeutic side effects result conflicting ideas best manage patient aim study test usefulness influence diagrams resolving conflicts centered managing complex disease processes influences disease process ensuing medical interventions health patient inflammatory bowel disease modeled influence diagram patient health focal point multiple influences affecting overall strength downstream influence represents focal point preceding upstream influences mathematics underlying influence diagram similar decision tree formalism allows one consider additive inhibitory influences include analysis qualitatively different types parameters diagnoses complications side effects therapeutic outcomes three exemplary cases presented illustrate potential use influence diagrams three case scenarios crohns disease resulted disease manifestations seemingly interfered therapy presence negative feedback loops rendered management case particularly challenging analyses influence diagrams revealed subtle interactions among multiple influences joint contributions patients overall health would difficult appreciate verbal reasoning alone influence diagrams represent decision tool particularly suited improve decisionmaking inflammatory bowel disease highlight key factors complex disease process help assess quantitative interactions