Clinical validation of an artificial neural network trained to identify acute allograft rejection in liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 496-503

  Hughes, Victoria F ^a   Melvin, David G ^a   Niranjan, Mahesan ^a   Alexander, Graeme A M ^a   Trull, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECIPIENT; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034970056     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2001.24642     Document Type: Article

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