Comparison of decision tree classifiers with neural network and linear discriminant analysis classifiers for computer-aided diagnosis: A Monte Carlo simulation study

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue I, 2005, Pages 258-265

  Sahiner, Berkman ^a,b   Hadjiiski, Lubomir M ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Wei, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CGC B2102 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Classifier design; Decision tree; Finite sample performance; Linear discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER DESIGN; DECISION TREE; FINITE SAMPLE PERFORMANCE; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 23844513475     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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