A novel diagnostic aid (ISABEL): Development and preliminary evaluation of clinical performance

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 1091-1095

  Ramnarayan, Padmanabhan ^a   Tomlinson, Amanda ^a   Kulkarni, Gautam ^a   Rao, Anupama ^b   Britto, Joseph ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support; diagnosis; diagnostic error; evaluation studies; pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS; CLINICAL PERFORMANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DECISION SUPPORTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EVALUATION STUDY; ITERATIVE PROCESS; TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION; 'CURRENT; DIAGNOSTIC AIDS; NOVEL DIAGNOSTICS; TEXTUAL PATTERNS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EVALUATION STUDY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951814123     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-1091     Document Type: Article

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