The Use of Artificial Neural Networks to Determine In-Hospital Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.

Journal: Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to present an artificial neural network (ANN) model for the accurate estimation of in-hospital mortality and to demonstrate the validity of the model with real data and a comparison with conventional multiple linear regression models.

Authors

  • Elzem Sen
    School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation University of Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Turkey. Electronic address: drelzemsen@gmail.com.
  • Serap Ulusam Seckiner
    Department of Industrial Engineering, Gaziantep University School of Engineering, Gaziantep, Turkey.