An unsupervised neural network to predict the level of heat stress

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 425-430

  Aggarwal, Yogender ^a   Karan, Bhuwan Mohan ^a   Das, Barda Nand ^a   Sinha, Rakesh Kumar ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial system; Heat illness; Heat stress; Kohonen

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM; AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATIONS; CLINICAL OUTCOMES; CLINICAL SYMPTOMS; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; FATALITY RATES; HEAT ILLNESS; HEAT STRESS; INPUT LAYERS; KOHONEN; KOHONEN NEURAL NETWORKS; LEARNING RATES; MORTALITY RATES; NEIGHBORHOOD SIZES; NORMALIZED VALUES; OUTPUT NEURONS; UNSUPERVISED NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

THERMAL STRESS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAT INJURY; HEAT STRESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 62349134780     PISSN: 13871307     EISSN: 15732614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-008-9152-x     Document Type: Article

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