A cost-effective agent for clinical trial assignment

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 60-65

  Kokku, Princeton K ^a   Hall, Lawrence O ^a   Goldgof, Dmitry B ^a   Fink, Eugene ^a   Krischer, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated diagnosis; Clinical trials; Medical expert systems

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY;

CLINICAL TRIAL ASSIGNMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0038345881     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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