Comparison of artificial neural network and logistic regression models for predicting in-hospital mortality after primary liver cancer surgery.

BACKGROUND: Since most published articles comparing the performance of artificial neural network (ANN) models and logistic regression (LR) models for predicting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) outcomes used only a single dataset, the essential issue of internal validity (reproducibility) of the model...

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Main Authors: Hon-Yi Shi, King-Teh Lee, Hao-Hsien Lee, Wen-Hsien Ho, Ding-Ping Sun, Jhi-Joung Wang, Chong-Chi Chiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3338531?pdf=render