Predicting breast screening attendance using machine learning techniques

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-259

  Baskaran, Vikraman ^a   Guergachi, Aziz ^a   Bali, Rajeev K ^b   Naguib, Raouf N G ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast screening; cancer; machine learning; neural networks; prediction; screening attendance

Indexed keywords

BREAST SCREENING; CANCER; DATA SETS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; OPEN SOURCES; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; PREDICTION; RADIAL BASIS;

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952477810     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2103954     Document Type: Article

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