Prediction of lumbar disc herniation patients' satisfaction with the aid of an artificial neural network

Turkish Neurosurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 253-259

  Matis, Georgios K ^a,b   Chrysou, Olga I ^a   Silva, Danilo ^c   Karanikas, Michail A ^a   Baltsavias, Gerasimos ^b   Lyratzopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Baroutas, Spyridon ^d   Birbilis, Theodossios A ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Health services research; Lumbar disc herniation; Patient; Prediction; Regression; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84964643061     PISSN: 10195149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.8492-13.0     Document Type: Article

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