Application of support vector machine to predict 5-year survival status of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma after treatment

Chinese-German Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-12

  Hua, Yijun ^a   Yu, Shu ^b   Hong, Minghuang ^a   Yang, Xiaowei ^b   Qiu, Fang ^a   Guo, Ling ^a   Huang, Peiyu ^a   Zhang, Guoyi ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Predictive model; Radiotherapy; ROC curve; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644879971     PISSN: 16101979     EISSN: 16139089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10330-005-0393-6     Document Type: Article

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