A SVM-based approach to microwave breast cancer detection

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 807-818

  Kerhet, Aliaksei ^a   Raffetto, Mirco ^b   Boni, Andrea ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Microwaves; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA REDUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROWAVES; PROBABILITY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; INVERSE SCATTERING; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749259750     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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