Feature selection for the SVM: An application to hypertension diagnosis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 754-763

  Su, Chao Ton ^a   Yang, Chien Hsin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classification; Diagnosis; Hypertension; Kernel; Polynomial; RBF; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BACKPROPAGATION; DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLYNOMIALS;

HYPERTENSION; KERNEL; RBF;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 34248566911     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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