Extending the medical concept of reference intervals using fuzzy predicates

2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation, CIMCA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 603-608

  Drobics, Mario ^a   Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY PREDICATES; HEPATITIS PATIENTS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL CONCEPTS; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL EXPERTS; VIENNA , AUSTRIA; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 70449552920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIMCA.2008.154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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