Deep assessment of machine learning techniques using patient treatment in acute abdominal pain in children

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 527-542

  Blazadonakis, Michalis ^a   Moustakis, Vassilis ^a,b   Charissis, Giorgos ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

acute abdominal pain in children; logic minimization; machine learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN; LOGIC MINIMIZATIONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030294553     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(96)00354-5     Document Type: Article

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