Group testing in the development of an expanded cancer staging system

Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 589-594

  Chen, Dechang ^a   Henson, Donald ^b   Xing, Kai ^c   Sheng, Li ^d  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The George Washington University   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENTS; CANCER STAGINGS; GROUP TESTING; LUNG CANCERS; LYMPH NODES; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 60649084588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2008.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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