A comprehensive sensitivity analysis of microarray breast cancer classification under feature variability

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sontrop, Herman M J ^a   Moerland, Perry D ^b   van den Ham, René ^a   Reinders, Marcel J T ^c   Verhaegh, Wim F J ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPRESSION PROFILING; FEATURE VARIABILITY; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; PREPROCESSING SCHEME; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; BIOLOGY; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71949112279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-389     Document Type: Article

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