Reliable confidence measures for medical diagnosis with evolutionary algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-99

  Lambrou, Antonis ^a   Papadopoulos, Harris ^b   Gammerman, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; confidence values; conformal prediction (CP); genetic algorithms (GAs); medical diagnosis; ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CONFIDENCE VALUES; CONFORMAL PREDICTION (CP); MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; OVARIAN CANCERS;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

PROTEOME;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OVARY TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROTEOME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78651310870     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2091144     Document Type: Article

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