Generating concise and accurate classification rules for breast cancer diagnosis

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 205-219

  Setiono, Rudy ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attribute selection; Data pre processing; Neural network rule extraction; Wisconsin breast cancer diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONCOLOGY;

BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0034159928     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(99)00041-X     Document Type: Article

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