Assessing the effect of quantitative and qualitative predictors on gastric cancer individuals survival using hierarchical artificial neural network models

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-48

  Amiri, Zohreh ^a   Mohammad, Kazem ^b   Mahmoudi, Mahmood ^b   Parsaeian, Mahbubeh ^b   Zeraati, Hojjat ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Life expectancy; Neural networks; Proportional Hazards model; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL PREDICTION;

EID: 84875474204     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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