A kernelised fuzzy-Support Vector Machine CAD system for the diagnosis of lung cancer from tissue images

International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-52

  Land, Walker H ^a   McKee, Daniel W ^b   Zhukov, Tatyana ^c   Song, Dansheng ^c   Qian, Wei ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MANSFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; classification; Computer Aided Diagnosis; feature selection; kernel methods; lung cancer; microscopy images; segmentation; Support Vector Machine; SVM

Indexed keywords

EID: 61649099305     PISSN: 17562104     EISSN: 17562112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJFIPM.2008.018291     Document Type: Article

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