title: Prediction of vascular tissue engineering results with artificial neural networks.
abstract: Tissue engineers are often confused on finding the most successful strategy for specific patient. In this study, we used artificial neural networks to predict the outcomes of different vascular tissue engineering strategies, thus providing advisory information for experimental designers. Over 30 variables were used as features of the tissue engineering strategies. Different architectures of artificial neural networks with back propagation algorithm were tested to obtain the best model configuration for the prediction of the tissue engineering strategies. In the computational experiments, the artificial neural networks with one and two hidden layers could, respectively, detect unsuccessful strategies with the highest predictive accuracy of 91.45 and 94.24%. In conclusion, artificial intelligence has great potential in tissue engineering decision support. It can provide accurate advisory information for tissue engineers, thus reducing failures and improving therapeutic effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, The Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, PR China. tenhospital@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Haiyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: Xiaolin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jinglong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Zhipeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001808:Blood Vessels; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012501:Saphenous Vein; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends