An adaptive incremental approach to constructing ensemble classifiers: Application in an information-theoretic computer-aided decision system for detection of masses in mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2976-2984

  Mazurowski, MacIej A ^a   Zurada, Jacek M ^b   Tourassi, Georgia D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION THEORY; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUES; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; INCREMENTAL TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 67649631663     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3132304     Document Type: Article

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