Classification of Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Using Mathematical Modelling and a Regression Tree Algorithm of Noninvasive Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Parameters

European Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 327-333

  Stothers, Lynn ^a   Guevara, Ramón ^a   Macnab, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bladder outlet obstruction; Classification and regression tree (CART); Linear discriminant analysis; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Pressure flow nomogram

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CHROMATOPHORE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URODYNAMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 72149109808     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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