Diagnostic support for selected neuromuscular diseases using answerpattern recognition and data mining techniques: A proof of concept multicenter prospective trial

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Grigull, Lorenz ^a   Lechner, Werner ^b   Petri, Susanne ^a   Kollewe, Katja ^a   Dengler, Reinhard ^a   Mehmecke, Sandra ^a   Schumacher, Ulrike ^c   Lücke, Thomas ^d   Schneider Gold, Christiane ^e   Khler, Cornelia ^d   Güttsches, Anne Katrin ^e   Kortum, Xiaowei ^f   Klawonn, Frank ^f,g  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Improved Medical Diagnostics IMD GmbH   (Germany)

^c DRK Clementinenkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^d ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f OSTFALIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data mining; Diagnostic support; Questionnaire; Rare neuromuscular diseases

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA MINING; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85007610158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0268-5     Document Type: Review

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