Reliability assessment of ensemble classifiers: Application in mammography

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

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 366-370

  Mazurowski, MacIej A ^a   Zurada, Jacek M ^a   Tourassi, Georgia D ^b  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FINAL DECISION; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FORECASTING; INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RELIABILITY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 50949099927     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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