Artificial neural network retrained to detect myocardial ischemia using a Japanese multicenter database.

Journal: Annals of nuclear medicine
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Abstract

PURPOSE: An artificial neural network (ANN) has been applied to detect myocardial perfusion defects and ischemia. The present study compares the diagnostic accuracy of a more recent ANN version (1.1) with the initial version 1.0.

Authors

  • Kenichi Nakajima
    Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital.
  • Koichi Okuda
  • Satoru Watanabe
    Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, 920-8641, Japan.
  • Shinro Matsuo
  • Seigo Kinuya
  • Karin Toth
    EXINI Diagnostics, Lund, Sweden.
  • Lars Edenbrandt
    Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.