A Clinical Decision Support System for Femoral Peripheral Arterial Disease Treatment
Joint Authors
Emel, Erdal
Yurtkuran, Alkın
Tok, Mustafa
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-12-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
One of the major challenges of providing reliable healthcare services is to diagnose and treat diseases in an accurate and timely manner.
Recently, many researchers have successfully used artificial neural networks as a diagnostic assessment tool.
In this study, the validation of such an assessment tool has been developed for treatment of the femoral peripheral arterial disease using a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN).
A data set for training the RBFNN has been prepared by analyzing records of patients who had been treated by the thoracic and cardiovascular surgery clinic of a university hospital.
The data set includes 186 patient records having 16 characteristic features associated with a binary treatment decision, namely, being a medical or a surgical one.
K-means clustering algorithm has been used to determine the parameters of radial basis functions and the number of hidden nodes of the RBFNN is determined experimentally.
For performance evaluation, the proposed RBFNN was compared to three different multilayer perceptron models having Pareto optimal hidden layer combinations using various performance indicators.
Results of comparison indicate that the RBFNN can be used as an effective assessment tool for femoral peripheral arterial disease treatment.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Yurtkuran, Alkın& Tok, Mustafa& Emel, Erdal. 2013. A Clinical Decision Support System for Femoral Peripheral Arterial Disease Treatment. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-506432
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Yurtkuran, Alkın…[et al.]. A Clinical Decision Support System for Femoral Peripheral Arterial Disease Treatment. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-506432
American Medical Association (AMA)
Yurtkuran, Alkın& Tok, Mustafa& Emel, Erdal. A Clinical Decision Support System for Femoral Peripheral Arterial Disease Treatment. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-506432
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-506432