Diagnostic support for selected paediatric pulmonary diseases using answer-pattern recognition in questionnaires based on combined data mining applications-a monocentric observational pilot study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Rother, Ann Katrin ^a   Schwerk, Nicolaus ^a   Brinkmann, Folke ^b   Klawonn, Frank ^c,e   Lechner, Werner ^d   Grigull, Lorenz ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Improved Medical Diagnostics Ptd Ltd   (Singapore)

^e OSTFALIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASTHMA; BAYES THEOREM; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PILOT STUDY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VALIDATION STUDY; DATA MINING; FEMALE; INFANT; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATA MINING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84942895675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135180     Document Type: Article

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