This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Vartziotis, F Articles by Lagaris, I. E. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Vartziotis, F Articles by Lagaris, I. E. Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

A Portable Decision Making Tool for Health Professionals Based on Neural Networks

Medical Technology and Intelligent Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, PO Box 1186, Gr 451 10 Ioannina, Greece, Biomedical Research Institute–FORTH, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece fvartzi{at}cc.uoi.gr

D. I. Fotiadis

A Likas

I. E. Lagaris

The article presents a fast portable system to provide health professionals with solutions for pre-operative surgical planning and decision making in real time. The system employs an effective computational environment for solving partial and ordinary differential equations based on neural networks. This approach is implemented partially on a specialized hardware board to exploit the fact that neural networks constitute massively parallel systems. The system also contains a powerful and convenient graphical user interface. There are tools to visualize and/or animate 2-D and 3-D data, and a customized interactive environment where particular biomedical problems can be easily processed and formulat

Key Words: neural networks • parallel computing • portable decision making tools • surgical planning

Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, 273-282 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1460458203094005


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?