Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 53-62 , September 2009

An intelligent model for liver disease diagnosis

  • Rong-Ho Lin

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Received 6 March 2008 ,Revised 29 April 2009 ,Accepted 10 May 2009.

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PII: S0933-3657(09)00080-3

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2009.05.005

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 53-62 , September 2009