Predicting mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery: What do artificial neural networks learn?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-235

  Tu, Jack V ^a   Weinstein, Milton C ^b   McNeil, Barbara J ^b   Naylor, C David ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Logistic regression; Mortality; Neural networks; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031893485     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800212     Document Type: Article

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