Competitive/collaborative neural computing system for medical diagnosis in pancreatic cancer detection

Expert Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-48

  Gorunescu, Florin ^a   Gorunescu, Marina ^b   Saftoiu, Adrian ^a   Vilmann, Peter ^c   Belciug, Smaranda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

competitive collaborative computing system; computer aided diagnosis; neural networks; performance analysis; weighted voting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTING SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL AREAS; MEDICAL DECISIONS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; NEURAL COMPUTING; PANCREATIC CANCERS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; WEIGHTED VOTING;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79551578115     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2010.00540.x     Document Type: Article

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