Fundamentals of clinical methodology: 2. Etiology

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-270

  Sadegh Zadeh, Kazem ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aspirin; C reactive protein; Causal diagnosis; Causal relevance; Causation; Chlamydia pneumoniae; Clinical methodology; Coronary heart disease; Deterministic etiology; Etiology; Fuzzy causal relevance; Fuzzy etiology; Medical knowledge engineering; Negative cause; Positive cause; Probabilistic etiology; Treatment efficacy analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; DRUG PRODUCTS; FUZZY SETS; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS;

DETERMINISTIC ETIOLOGY; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROBABILISTIC ETIOLOGY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0032033083     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(97)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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