Selecting critical clinical features for heart diseases diagnosis with a real-coded genetic algorithm

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1105-1111

  Yan, Hongmei ^a   Zheng, Jun ^b   Jiang, Yingtao ^c   Peng, Chenglin ^d   Xiao, Shouzhong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Las Vegas   (United States)

^d CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnostic features; Differential diagnosis; Feature selection; Genetic algorithm; Heart diseases diagnosis

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; REDUNDANCY;

CRITICAL CLINICAL FEATURES; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART DISEASES DIAGNOSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 37249079759     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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