Prognostic systems for NPC: A comparison of the multi layer perceptron model and the recurrent model

ICONIP 2002 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing: Computational Intelligence for the E-Age

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 271-275

  Abdul Kareem, S ^a   Baba, S ^a   Zubairi, Y Z ^a   Prasad, U ^b   Ibrahim, M ^c   Wahid, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^c Pantai Medical Centre   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

artificial neural network; back propagation; multi layer perceptron; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; prognosis; recurrent network; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACKPROPAGATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT NETWORKS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84965066118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICONIP.2002.1202176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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