A mixture of experts network structure for breast cancer diagnosis

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 569-579

  Übeyli, Elif Derya ^a  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast cancer diagnosis; Diagnostic accuracy; Expectation maximization algorithm; Mixture of experts

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPECTATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; FORECASTING; LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROGNOSIS;

EID: 23944521875     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-005-6112-6     Document Type: Article

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