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The review of a prototype Medical Decision Making System based on a robust configuration of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is the topic of this article. It is designed to cover a whole category of human diseases, as can be proved by the already adapted systems that covered Pulmonogical and Haematological Cases. Moreover, an inside view is provided on one of the most crucial topics: ANNs' learning procedure.
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Economou, G.P.K., Lymberopoulos, D. & Goutis, C.E. An ANNs-based system for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Neural Process Lett 2, 22–26 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02312379
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