Late rectal bleeding after 3D-CRT for prostate cancer: Development of a neural-network-based predictive model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1399-1412

  Tomatis, S ^a   Rancati, T ^a   Fiorino, C ^b   Vavassori, V ^c   Fellin, G ^d   Cagna, E ^e   Mauro, F A ^f   Girelli, G ^g   Monti, A ^e   Baccolini, M ^f   Naldi, G ^h   Bianchi, C ⁱ   Menegotti, L ^d   Pasquino, M ^g   Stasi, M ^j   Valdagni, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital   (Italy)

^d SANTA CHIARA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Ospedale SantAnna   (Italy)

^f MARIA CECILIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g ASL TO 4   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

ⁱ OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

^j CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION; AREAS UNDER THE CURVES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTORS; DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; HORMONAL THERAPY; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL ASPECTS; PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PREDICTIVE POWER; PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION; PROSTATE CANCERS; RADICAL RADIOTHERAPY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; RECTAL TOXICITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; SURFACE MAPPING; TEST SETS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; LOGISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOTHERAPY; RATING; SURGERY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECTUM DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AREA UNDER CURVE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857527050     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/5/1399     Document Type: Article

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