Intelligent quotient estimation of mental retarded people from different psychometric instruments using artificial neural networks

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-145

  Di Nuovo, Alessandro G ^a   Nuovo, Santo Di ^a   Buono, Serafino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Intelligent quotient; Mental retardation; Psychometry

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS VALIDATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ERROR METRICS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; ESTIMATION MODELS; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT; MENTAL RETARDATION; MODELLING METHOD; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; UNIVARIATE;

DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; ESTIMATION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; TESTING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE NETWORK BASED FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORED PROGRESSIVE MATRIX TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUZZY C MEAN CLUSTERING; GENERAL REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEITER INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE SCALE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT SCALE; MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORK; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINE; POLYNOMIAL MODEL REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHO EDUCATIONAL PROFILE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; SUBTRACTIVE CLUSTERING; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; INTELLIGENCE; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84855970708     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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