Applying statistical, uncertainty-based and connectionist approaches to the prediction of fetal outcome: A comparative study

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-57

  Alonso Betanzos, A ^a   Mosqueira Rey, E ^a   Moret Bonillo, V ^a   Baldonedo Del Rio B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Expert prediction systems; Validation of intelligent systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FETAL MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPERT PREDICTION SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 0032790474     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(99)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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