Towards an objective assessment of alzheimer's disease: The application of a novel evolutionary algorithm in the analysis of figure copying tasks

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2073-2079

  Hazell, Alex ^a   Smith, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cartesian genetic programming; Evolutionary algorithm; Image analysis; Medical applications

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ALZHEIMER; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASES; CARTESIAN GENETIC PROGRAMMING; CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; SPATIAL ABILITIES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 57349165457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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