AdaBoost algorithm with random forests for predicting breast cancer survivability

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3062-3069

  Thongkam, Jaree ^a   Xu, Guandong ^a   Zhang, Yanchun ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ADABOOST; ADABOOST ALGORITHMS; BREAST CANCERS; HYBRID METHODS; OVERFITTING PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PREDICTION MODELS; RANDOM FORESTS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; WEAK LEARNERS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 56349166187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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