Data Mining Medical Information: Should Artificial Neural Networks Be Used to Analyse Trauma Audit Data?

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI)

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 51-64

  Chesney, Thomas ^a   Penny, Kay ^b   Oakley, Peter ^c   Davies, Simon ^d   Chesney, David ^e   Maffulli, Nicola ^f   Templeton, John ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artificial neural network; logistic regression; machine learning; severe injury; trauman data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001555454     PISSN: 15553396     EISSN: 1555340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jhisi.2006040104     Document Type: Article

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