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Currently, we lack accurate methods of predicting survival in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Data relating to 40 such patients (out of a comprehensive database of 212 patients) was retrospectively analyzed by artificial neural networks (ANNs). A total of 15 different factors including clinicopathological and molecular markers of mixed prognostic significance were used in the analysis. The accuracy of the ANN in predicting 12-months cancer-specific survival for T2-T4 cancers was 82%. This was subsequently compared with the predictions of four experienced urologists who analyzed the same data blindly. The corresponding mean accuracy for the urologists was 65%.

Type

Conference paper

Publication Date

01/12/1999

Volume

2