A matching algorithm for the distribution of human pancreatic islets

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5494-5506

  Qian, Dajun ^a   Kaddis, John ^a   Niland, Joyce C ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhaustive search; Importance sampling; Islet distribution; Matching algorithm; Space reduction

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TISSUE;

EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; MATCHING ALGORITHM FOR ISLET DISTRIBUTION (MAID); SPACE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34547145357     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.02.030     Document Type: Article

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