Breast tumor simulation and parameters estimation using evolutionary algorithms

Modelling and Simulation in Engineering

Volumn 2008, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pidaparti, Ramana M ^a   Mital, Manu ^a  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEAT GENERATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TUMORS;

DEEP-SEATED TUMORS; ESTIMATION METHODOLOGIES; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; HEAT GENERATION RATE; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 45749100883     PISSN: 16875591     EISSN: 16875605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/756436     Document Type: Article

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