Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 189-198 , March 2008

Dynamic decision support graph—Visualization of ANN-generated diagnostic indications of pathological conditions developing over time

  • Johan Ellenius

      Affiliations

    • Department of LIME (Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics), Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 8 524 87 120; fax: +46 8 524 83 600.
    • ,
  • Torgny Groth

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Informatics and Engineering, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden

Received 10 February 2007 ,Revised 14 June 2007 ,Accepted 6 October 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2007.10.002

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 189-198 , March 2008

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