A decision support tool for the diagnosis of breast cancer based upon fuzzy ARTMAP

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-165

  Downs, J ^a   Harrison, R F ^a   Cross, S S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Breast cancer; Fuzzy ARTMAP; Symbolic rule extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032347452     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01414167     Document Type: Article

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