The comparisons of prognostic indexes using data mining techniques and Cox regression analysis in the breast cancer data

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 8247-8254

  Ture, Mevlut ^a   Tokatli, Fusun ^a   Kurt Omurlu, Imran ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; C RT; C4.5; C5.0; CHAID; Cox regression; Decision tree; Disease free survival; ID3; Kaplan Meier; QUEST; Random survival forests

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; C4.5; C5.0; CHAID; COX REGRESSION; DECISION TREE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ID3; KAPLAN-MEIER; QUEST; RANDOM SURVIVAL FORESTS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 60249097249     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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