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An Introduction to Deep Learners and Deep Learner Descriptors for Medical Applications

Part of the Intelligent Systems Reference Library book series (ISRL,volume 186)

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This chapter provides an introduction to deep learners and deep learner descriptors for medical applications. A basic outline of the deep learning (DL) process and five methods for exploiting DL with the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), is presented, as well as a summary of the chapters in this book.

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Nanni, L., Brahnam, S., Brattin, R., Ghidoni, S., Jain, L.C. (2020). An Introduction to Deep Learners and Deep Learner Descriptors for Medical Applications. In: Nanni, L., Brahnam, S., Brattin, R., Ghidoni, S., Jain, L. (eds) Deep Learners and Deep Learner Descriptors for Medical Applications. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 186. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42750-4_1

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