An artificial neural network for analysing the survival of patients with colorectal cancer

ESANN 2005 Proceedings - 13th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-108

  Bittern, R ^a   Cuschieri, A ^a   Dolgobrodov, S D ^b   Marshall, R ^b   Moore, P ^b   Steele, R J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESOURCES; COLORECTAL CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCHERS; PARTIAL LIKELIHOODS; SCOTLAND;

DECISION MAKING; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84886994971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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