Qualitative morphological analysis of muscle biopsies using neural networks
Date
1993Author
Gabriel, Gabriel

Constantinou, Renos
Hadjianastasiou, Annie
Schizas, Akis N.
ISBN
0-7803-1421-2978-0-7803-1421-4
Publisher
Publ by IEEESource
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural NetworksProceedings of 1993 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Part 1 (of 3)
Volume
1Pages
943-946Google Scholar check
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Qualitative data from human muscle biopsies have been extracted and analyzed by artificial neural network (ANN) models trained with the Kohonen's self-organizing feature maps algorithm to provide an automated medical diagnosis. Data from 6 distinct groups of neuromuscular disorders were examined. Training and evaluation were carried out on 80 and 25 cases respectively. The diagnostic performance of models investigated varied form 87 to 95%, and 88 to 92% for the training and evaluation. Furthermore, the diagnostic usefulness of the self-organizing feature map models was tested on 11 muscle biopsies with no specific diagnostic findings that gave encouraging results.