Cost-sensitive ensemble of support vector machines for effective detection of microcalcification in breast cancer diagnosis

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3614, Issue PART II, 2005, Pages 483-493

  Peng, Yonghong ^a   Huang, Qian ^b   Jiang, Ping ^a   Jiang, Jianmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATA REDUCTION; DIAGNOSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONCOLOGY;

BOOSTING ENSEMBLES; MICROCALCIFICATION (MC); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (ROC); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 26944475562     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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