Feature selection for medical data mining: Comparisons of expert judgment and automatic approaches

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-170

  Cheng, Tsang Hsiang ^a   Wei, Chih Ping ^b   Tseng, Vincent S ^c  

^a SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Classification analysis; Expert judgment; Feature selection; Medical data mining

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARDIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; PATTERN MATCHING;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS; EXPERT JUDGMENTS; FEATURE SELECTION; MEDICAL DATA MINING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33845561902     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2006.87     Document Type: Conference Paper

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