Neural network fusion strategies for identifying breast masses

IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2437-2442

  Wu, Yunfeng ^a   He, Jingjing ^a   Man, Yi ^a   Arribas, Juan Ignacio ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Information fusion; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Perceptron; Posterior probabilities

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCERS; COMPONENT NEURAL NETWORKS (CNN); INFORMATION FUSIONS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

TUMORS;

EID: 10844231826     PISSN: 10987576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2004.1381010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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