Ensembled neural networks for brain death prediction for patients with severe head injury

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-421

  Abbod, Maysam F ^a   Cheng, Kai Yuan ^b   Cui, Xing Ran ^c   Huang, Sheng Jean ^d   Han, Yin Yi ^d   Shieh, Jiann Shing ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brain death index (BDI); Ensembled neural networks (ENNs); Irreversible apnoeic coma (IAC); Multi layer perceptron (MLP)

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; LEARNING TO RANK; NETWORK LAYERS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BRAIN DEATH; ENSEMBLE NEURAL NETWORK; ENSEMBLED NEURAL NETWORKS (ENNS); IRREVERSIBLE APNOEIC COMA (IAC); MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; PREDICTION MODEL; TOPOLOGY STRUCTURE; VALIDATION ERRORS;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PERCEPTRON; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 80052437831     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: 17468108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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