Rule extraction from neural networks for medical domains

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dancey, Darren ^a   Bandar, Zuhair A ^a   McLean, David ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EXTRACTION;

BLACK BOXES; CLASSIFICATION ABILITY; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MEDICAL DOMAINS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; RULE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; RULE EXTRACTION FROM NEURAL NETWORKS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 79959428707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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