Artificial neural networks in laboratory medicine and medical outcome prediction

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 845-853

  Tafeit, Erwin ^a   Reibnegger, Gilbert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Medizinisch Chemisches Inst P   (Austria)

Author keywords

Feed forward neural networks; Kohonen's self organizing map; Supervised learning; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; LABORATORY; MOLECULE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; LABORATORIES; MEDLINE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032745223     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.128     Document Type: Review

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