Myocardial SPET: Artificial neural networks describe extent and severity of perfusion defects

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 497-503

  Lindahl, D ^a,b   Palmer, J ^a   Edenbrandt, L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer assisted diagnosis; Ischaemic heart disease; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032730227     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.1999.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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