Prospective validation of artificial neural network trained to identify acute myocardial infarction

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 8993, 1996, Pages 12-15

  Baxt, William G ^a,b   Skora, Joyce ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0030061822     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)91555-X     Document Type: Article

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