Development of a simulation model of colorectal cancer

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Roberts, Stephen ^a,d   Wang, Lijun ^b,f   Klein, Robert ^c,e   Ness, Reid ^b,f   Dittus, Robert ^b,f  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Medical Decision Modeling Inc

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

^e Medical Decision Modeling Inc   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Medical applications; Medical decision making

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL CANCER (CRC); MEDICAL DECISION MAKING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 38349186619     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 15581195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1315575.1315579     Document Type: Article

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