Entropy maximization networks: An application to breast cancer prognosis

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 568-577

  Choong, Poh Lian ^a   DeSilva, Christopher J S ^a,c   Dawkins, Hugh J S ^b   Sterrett, Gregory F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER PROGNOSIS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ESTIMATION; MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTITION FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; PATIENT TREATMENT; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030146468     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.501716     Document Type: Article

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