A system to diagnose atherosclerosis via wavelet transforms, principal component analysis and artificial neural networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 632-640

  Kara, Sadik ^a   Dirgenali, Fatma ^b  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Necatibey Cad No: 112   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Power spectral density; Principal component analysis; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER DEVICES;

PATIENT MONITORING;

EID: 33751079650     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.01.043     Document Type: Article

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