A computer-based diagnostic and prognostic system for assessing urinary bladder tumour grade and predicting cancer recurrence

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 111-122

  Spyridonos, P ^a   Cavouras, D ^b   Ravazoula, P ^c   Nikiforidis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c University Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification; Computer based diagnosis; Prognostic system; Tumour recurrence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGIST; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; GREECE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PROGNOSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860394338     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463923021000043723     Document Type: Article

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