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Studies from University of Montreal add new findings in the area of prostate cancer

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, May 13th, 2007

New investigation results, "A critical appraisal of logistic regression-based nomograms, artificial neural networks, classification and regression-tree models, look-up tables and risk-group stratification models for prostate cancer," are detailed in a study published in BJU International. In this recent report, researchers in Montreal, Canada conducted a study "To evaluate several methods of predicting prostate cancer-related outcomes, i.e. nomograms, look-up tables, artificial neural networks (ANN), classification and regression tree (CART) analyses and risk-group stratification (RGS) models, all of which represent valid alternatives. We present four direct comparisons, where a...

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