Automated scoring of patient pain drawings using artificial neural networks: Efforts toward a low back pain triage application

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 287-298

  Sanders, Neal W ^a,b   Mann III, N Horace ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Low back pain; Neural networks computer; Pain drawing; Pain measurement; Spinal disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRAWING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; ORTHOPEDICS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034285225     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(00)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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