Chapter 4 Classification and Scoring UIC - CS 594 B. Liu 1 An example application An emergency room in a hospital measures 17 variables (e.g., blood pressure, age, etc) of newly admitted patients. A decision has to be taken whether to put the patient in an intensive-care unit. Due to the high cost of ICU, those patients who may survive less than a month are given higher priority. The problem is to predict high-risk patients and discriminate them from low-risk patients.