Diagnosing scrapie in sheep: A classification experiment

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1194-1202

  Kuncheva, Ludmila I ^a   del Rio Vilas, Victor J ^b   Rodríguez, Juan J ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

AUC; Classifiers; Machine learning; Pattern recognition; ROC curves; Scrapie in sheep; Veterinary diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

NEURO-DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ROC CURVES; SCRAPIE IN SHEEP; VETERINARY DIAGNOSIS;

DISEASES;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; ROC CURVE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GREAT BRITAIN; ROC CURVE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34347264893     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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