Diagnosis of dementia and its pathologies using Bayesian belief networks

ICEIS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings

Volumn AIDSS, Issue , 2006, Pages 291-295

  Cowie, Julie ^a   Oteniya, Lloyd ^a   Coles, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Kildean Day Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Dementia diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATHOLOGY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 77953876928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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