Disease-free survival after hepatic resection in hepatocellular carcinoma patients: a prediction approach using artificial neural network.

BACKGROUND: A database for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients who had received hepatic resection was used to develop prediction models for 1-, 3- and 5-year disease-free survival based on a set of clinical parameters for this patient group. METHODS: The three prediction models included an artif...

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Main Authors: Wen-Hsien Ho, King-Teh Lee, Hong-Yaw Chen, Te-Wei Ho, Herng-Chia Chiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3250424?pdf=render