Exhaled air temperature in asthmatic children: A mathematical evaluation

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-171

  Pifferi, Massimo ^a   Ragazzo, Vincenzo ^a   Previti, Antonino ^a   Pioggia, Giovanni ^a   Ferro, Marcello ^a   MacChia, Pierantonio ^a   Piacentini, Giorgio L ^b   Boner, Attilio L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Asthmatic children; Kohonen self organizing maps; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LEUKOTRIENE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CLEARANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AIR; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 63149126185     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2008.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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