Determining of prognostic factors in gastric cancer patients using artificial neural networks

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 533-536

  Biglarian, Akbar ^a   Hajizadeh, Ebrahim ^b   Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan ^b   Zayeri, Farid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artifitial neural network; Gastric cancer; Prediction; Survival analysis; Weibull regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650686293     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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