Breast cancer diagnosis using an artificial neural network trained by group search optimizer

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 517-531

  he, S ^a   wu, Q H ^a   Saunders, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

classification; group search optimizer; neural network training

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; MACHINE LEARNING; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

BENCHMARK CLASSIFICATION; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; GENERALIZATION PERFORMANCE; GROUP SEARCH OPTIMIZER (GSO); NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZERS; UCI MACHINE LEARNING REPOSITORY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 72149102140     PISSN: 01423312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142331208094239     Document Type: Article

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