Clustering breast cancer data by consensus of different validity indices

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 540 CP, 2008, Pages

  Soria, D ^a   Garibaldi, J M ^a   Ambrogi, F ^b   Lisboa, P J G ^c   Boracchi, P ^b   Biganzoli, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clustering algorithms; Validity indices

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DATA; CLUSTER NUMBERS; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; K-MEANS METHOD; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; QUALITY OF CLUSTERING; VALIDITY INDEX; VALIDITY INDICES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SET THEORY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67549102287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20080437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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