Optimal breast biopsy decision-making based on mammographic features and demographic factors

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1577-1591

  Chhatwal, Jagpreet ^a   Alagoz, Oguzhan ^b   Burnside, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST BIOPSIES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL DATA; DECISION PROBLEMS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; MAMMOGRAPHIC FEATURES; OPTIMAL POLICIES; RISK THRESHOLD; SKIN CANCERS;

DECISION MAKING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; X RAY SCREENS;

BIOPSY;

EID: 78651435293     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1100.0877     Document Type: Article

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