Neural network classification of pediatric posterior fossa tumors using clinical and imaging data

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-15

  Bidiwala, Shaad ^a   Pittman, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Expert system; Neural network; Posterior fossa tumors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SKULL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542408474     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076571     Document Type: Article

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