Prediction of lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer patients with neural networks

Cancer Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 141-148

  Droste, Karin ^a   Bollschweiler, Elfriede ^a   Waschulzik, Thomas ^b   Schütz, Thorsten ^b   Engelbrecht, Rolf ^b   Maruyama, Keiichi ^c   Siewert, J Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Computerized diagnosis; Feedforward neural network; Gastric cancer; Lymph node metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0030568073     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(96)04438-2     Document Type: Article

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