INTRODUCTION: In Western Europe prevalence and incidence of tuberculosis in the indigenous population is declining and TB in migrants from high prevalence countries is becoming a major issue of TB control...
Keywords: Tuberculosis, public health services, Migration, molecular epidemiology, clustering
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: The objective of this work was to contribute to the development, validation and application of data mining methods for prediction in decision support systems in medicine...
Keywords: Hemodialysis, Data Mining, clustering, rule extraction, prediction, Decision Support
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerObjectives: The main objective of the research is an application of the clustering and cluster validity methods to estimate the number of clusters in cancer tumor datasets...
Keywords: Gene expression, Data Mining, clustering, cluster evaluation, validity indices
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: The aim of the paper is to analyze transient events in inter-ictal EEG recordings, and classify epileptic activity into focal or generalized epilepsy using an automated method...
Keywords: EEG, automated epilepsy diagnosis, clustering, Artificial Neural Networks, spike detection, knowledge-based system
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerSegmentation is a key task in the processing of 3D point clouds as obtained from airborne laser scanners (ALS)...
Keywords: segmentation, classification, clustering, airborne laser scanning, mean shift
11/2007 | Journal of Applied Geodesy, Walter de GruyterA new hierarchical renumbering technique for sparse matrices arising from the application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to the three-dimensional Maxwell's equations is presented...
Keywords: sparse matrix, reordering, hierarchical matrix, clustering, approximate Cholesky decomposition
05/2007 | Journal of Numerical Mathematics, Walter de Gruyter