Data Mining in Predicting Survival of Kidney Dialysis Patients

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4949, Issue , 2003, Pages 73-79

  Shah, Shital ^a   Kusiak, Andrew ^a   Dixon, Bradley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Decision making; Dialysis; Hemodialysis; Invariant objects; Kidney; Signatures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; HEMODIALYZERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

INVARIANT OBJECTS; SIGNATURES;

DIALYSIS;

EID: 0141684939     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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