Direct explanations and knowledge extraction from a multilayer perceptron network that performs low back pain classification

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 1778, Issue , 2000, Pages 270-285

  Vaughn, Marilyn L ^a   Cavill, Steven J ^a   Taylor, Stewart J ^b   Foy, Michael A ^b   Fogg, Anthony J B ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

COMBINATORIAL SEARCH; DATA RELATIONSHIPS; DIRECT APPROACH; INPUT FEATURES; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NETWORKS; REAL-WORLD NETWORKS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84942897865     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/10719871_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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