Sequential decision tree using the analytic hierarchy process for decision support in rectal cancer

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-68

  Suner, Asli ^a,b   Çelikoĝlu, Can Cengiz ^a   Dicle, Oĝuz ^a   Sökmen, Selman ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Medical decision making; Rectal cancer; Sequential decision tree

Indexed keywords

AHP METHOD; CONSISTENCY RATIO; DECISION ALGORITHMS; DECISION PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORTS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RECTAL CANCER; RELATIVE PRIORITIES; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMOTHERAPY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; DISEASES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; TUMORS;

DECISION MAKING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865566398     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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