Artificial neural network assessment of substitutive pharmacological treatments in hospitalised intravenous drug users

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-49

  Grassi, M C ^a   Caricati, A M ^a   Intraligi, M ^b   Buscema, M ^b   Nencini, P ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Semeion Centro Ricerche Di Scienze Della Comunicazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Benzodiazepines; Intravenous drug users; Methadone

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (LDA);

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; METHADONE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DETOXIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BENZODIAZEPINES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METHADONE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0036150211     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(01)00093-8     Document Type: Article

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