Consequences of neural network technology for cervical screening: Increase in diagnostic consistency and positive scores

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 112-117

  Kok, Myrthe R ^a   Boon, Mathilde E ^a  

^a LEIDEN CYTOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cervical screening; diagnostic consistency; interobserver variability; neural network technology; PAPNET

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0029937130     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960701)78:1<112::AID-CNCR16>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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