Decision tree induction: A useful tool for assisted diagnosis and prognosis in tumor pathology

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 799-808

  Decaestecker, Christine ^a   Camby, Isabelle ^a   Remmelink, Myriam ^a   Nagy, Nathalie ^a   Petein, Michel ^c   Pasteels, Jean Lambert ^a   Van Ham, Philippe ^b   Salmon, Isabelle ^a   Kiss, Robert ^a,b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLADDER CARCINOMA; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LIPOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, ADIPOSE TISSUE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID NODULE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030986323     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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