Potential of the back propagation neural network in the discrimination of benign from malignant gastric cells

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-250

  Karakitsos, Petros ^a,c   Stergiou, Efi Botsoli ^a   Pouliakis, Abraham ^b   Tzivras, Michalis ^b   Archimandritis, Athanasios ^b   Liossi, Anna Ioakim ^a   Kyrkou, Kalliopi ^a  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

gastritis; neural networks (computer); stomach neoplasms; stomach ulcer

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 0029937104     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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