A new multi criteria decision making approach for medical imaging systems considering risk factors

作者：Kulak Osman; Goren Hacer Guner^*; Supciller Aliye Ayca

来源：Applied Soft Computing, 2015, 35: 931-941.

DOI：10.1016/j.asoc.2015.03.004

• Multi criteria decision making
• Risk factors
• Axiomatic design
• Medical imaging system

Effective and good quality imaging is important for medical decision-making and can reduce unnecessary costs and procedures. Therefore, decision making regarding any technology can present serious problems for healthcare centers with multi criteria decision making problems (MCDM). This paper is the first to develop the fuzzy axiomatic design with risk factors (RFAD) approach and to use it in multi attribute comparisons of medical imaging systems in a university hospital. Although most MCDM approaches in the literature treat risk factors as separate criteria, in real life every alternative has its own risks related to each criterion. The proposed approach integrates the risk factors in each criterion and calculates the information content to compare alternatives. This paper applies three different approaches to MCDM problems related to the selection of medical imaging systems for a university hospital.

• 出版日期2015-10