A breast cancer diagnosis system: A combined approach using rough sets and probabilistic neural networks

EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool

Volumn II, Issue , 2005, Pages 1124-1127

  Revett, Kenneth ^a   Gorunescu, Florin ^b,c   Gorunescu, Marina ^d   El Darzi, Elia ^a,c   Ene, Marius ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^c IEEE

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Breast cancer diagnosis; Dimensionality reduction; Medical decision support systems; Probabilistic neural networks; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947317304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eurcon.2005.1630149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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