A risk factor analysis of west nile virus: Extraction of relationships from a neural-network model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6007 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 208-217

  Ghosh, Debarchana ^a   Guha, Rajarshi ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Interpretation; Neural network; Non linear; Risk factors; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

CNN MODELS; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; COMPUTATIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERPRETATION; LINEAR MODEL; METROPOLITAN AREA; MINNESOTA; MOSQUITO ABATEMENT; NON-LINEAR; RISK FACTORS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER VIRUSES; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUSES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78650340378     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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