Early breast cancer prognosis prediction and rule extraction using a new constructive neural network algorithm

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4507 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 1004-1011

  Franco, Leonardo ^a   Subirats, José Luis ^a   Molina, Ignacio ^a   Alba, Emilio ^b   Jerez, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b Virgen de la Victoria Clinic Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RELAPSE PROBLEM; NON-LINEAR MODELS;

TUMORS;

EID: 38049184924     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73007-1_121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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