A novel cognitive interpretation of breast cancer thermography with complementary learning fuzzy neural memory structure

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 652-666

  Tan, T Z ^a   Quek, C ^a   Ng, G S ^a   Ng, E Y K ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer diagnosis; Complementary learning; FALCON AART; Fuzzy adaptive learning control network fuzzy neural network; Thermogram

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONCOLOGY;

BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPLEMENTARY LEARNING; COMPLEMENTARY LEARNING FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK (CLFNN); FALCON-AART;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 33847777002     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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