The EEG assessment of low-grade hepatic encephalopathy: Comparison of an artificial neural network-expert system (ANNES) based evaluation with visual EEG readings and EEG spectral analysis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2243-2251

  Amodio, P ^a   Pellegrini, A ^a   Ubiali, E ^b   Mathy, I ^c   Piccolo, F Del ^a   Orsato, R ^d   Gatta, A ^a   Guerit, J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^c CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^d Micromed Research Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Automatic EEG analysis; Cirrhosis; EEG; Hepatic encephalopathy; Spectral analysis; Staging; Visual reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK EXPERT SYSTEM; AUTOANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MAIN BASIC RHYTHM FREQUENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER BIAS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; SPECTROSCOPY; STAGING;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748450302     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.06.714     Document Type: Article

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