Diagnostic Model that Takes Medical Preferences into Account. Prediction of the Clinical Status of Prostate Cancer

—A mathematical model is proposed to describe and solve problems of medical diagnostics and forecasting based on a risk criterion. Within the framework of the model, problems with ranked diagnoses are considered, whose solution benefits from taking medical preferences into account. A diagnostic algorithm, which is the implementation of this model, is used to solve the problem of predicting the clinical status of prostate cancer. A comparative...