A machine learning approach to differentiating bacterial from viral meningitis

Proceedings - IEEE John Vincent Atanasoff 2006 International Symposium on Modern Computing, JVA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 155-160

  Revett, K ^a   Gorunescu, F ^b,c   Gorunescu, M ^d   Ene, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^c IEEE   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Automated diagnosis; Meningitis; Probabilistic neural networks; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUIDS (CSF); VIRAL MENINGITIS;

BACTERIA; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; ROUGH SET THEORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547650594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JVA.2006.2l     Document Type: Conference Paper

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