Assessing the efficiency of health care providers: A SOM perspective

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

Volumn 6731 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 30-39

  Resta, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Health Care Providers; Network Representation; SOM

Indexed keywords

ADJACENCY MATRICES; BALANCE SHEETS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; GRAPH MINING; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; MINKOWSKI METRICS; NETWORK REPRESENTATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOM; SOM ALGORITHMS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; EFFICIENCY; HEALTH; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; HEALTH CARE;

HEALTH CARE; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 79959324611     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21566-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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