An artificial intelligence technique for the prediction of persistent asthma in children

Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chatzimichail, Eleni A ^a   Rigas, Alexandros G ^a   Paraskakis, Emmanouil N ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; DATA SETS; EARLY LIFE; FEATURE REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION; INPUT DATAS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; TEST DATA;

DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79951612900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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