Predicting the outcome of brace treatment for scoliosis using conditional fuzzy clustering

Proceedings of the 2013 Joint IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Meeting, IFSA/NAFIPS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 837-842

  Chalmers, Eric ^a   Pedrycz, Witold ^a   Lou, Edmond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; CLINICAL USE; SPINAL DEFORMITY; SUPPORT TOOL; TREATMENT OUTCOMES;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84886502135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IFSA-NAFIPS.2013.6608509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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