org.phenotips.data

Interface PatientScorer

@Unstable
@Role
public interface PatientScorer

A service that computes the patient specificity, a score estimating how "good" a patient record is.

Since:

1.0M12

Version:

$Id: 06ce1be5d1d9c31a2df39dd3b758a5739522d5a6 $

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	getScore(Patient patient) Compute the raw specificity score for a patient.
PatientSpecificity	getSpecificity(Patient patient) Compute the specificity score for a patient, along with metadata about the score.

Method Detail

getSpecificity

PatientSpecificity getSpecificity(Patient patient)

Compute the specificity score for a patient, along with metadata about the score.

Parameters:

patient - the patient to score

Returns:

a valid specificity score if the score was successfully computed, null in case of failure

getScore

double getScore(Patient patient)

Compute the raw specificity score for a patient.

Parameters:

patient - the patient to score

Returns:

a score between 0 and 1, or -1 if the score cannot be computed by this scorer