Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 247-259 , March 2008

A decision support system to facilitate management of patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding

  • Adrienne Chu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
    • These authors contributed equally to this study.
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  • Hongshik Ahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
    • These authors contributed equally to this study.
    • ,
  • Bhawna Halwan

      Affiliations

    • SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY 11203, United States
    • These authors contributed equally to this study.
    • ,
  • Bruce Kalmin

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, United States
    • ,
  • Everson L.A. Artifon

      Affiliations

    • University of Sao Pualo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Alan Barkun

      Affiliations

    • Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 2T5
    • ,
  • Michail G. Lagoudakis

      Affiliations

    • Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Kounoupidiana, 73100 Chania Hellas, Greece
    • ,
  • Atul Kumar

      Affiliations

    • United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 631 880 8510; fax: +1 631 486 6113.

Received 19 January 2007 ,Revised 25 September 2007 ,Accepted 6 October 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2007.10.003

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 247-259 , March 2008

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