Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 31-42 , May 2006

Case-based retrieval to support the treatment of end stage renal failure patients

  • Stefania Montani

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Via Bellini 25/g, 15100 Alessandria, Italy
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  • Luigi Portinale

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Via Bellini 25/g, 15100 Alessandria, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 0131 360 184; fax: +39 0131 360 198.
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  • Giorgio Leonardi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy
    • G. Leonardi is currently a PhD student at Università di Pavia, but this work was realized while he was graduating at Università del Piemonte Orientale.
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  • Riccardo Bellazzi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy
    • ,
  • Roberto Bellazzi

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Nefrologia e Dialisi, S.O. Vigevano, A.O. Pavia, Italy

Received 22 July 2004 ,Revised 11 May 2005 ,Accepted 2 June 2005.

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PII: S0933-3657(05)00087-4

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2005.06.003

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 31-42 , May 2006

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