Assessing flexible models and rule extraction from censored survival data

IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1663-1668

  Lisboa, Paulo J G ^a   Biganzoli, Elia M ^b   Taktak, Azzam F ^c   Etchells, Terence A ^a   Jarman, Ian H ^a   Aung, M S Hane ^a   Ambrogi, Federico ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; LIFE CYCLE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; VERIFICATION;

CENSORED DATA; JOINT CONFERENCE; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 51749099393     PISSN: 10987576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4371207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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