Prognostic factors for metachronous contralateral breast cancer: A comparison of the linear Cox regression model and its artificial neural network extension

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-178

  Mariani, L ^a   Coradini, D ^a   Biganzoli, E ^a   Boracchi, P ^a   Marubini, E ^a   Pilotti, S ^a   Salvadori, B ^a   Silvestrini, R ^a   Veronesi, U ^b   Zucali, R ^a   Rilke, F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Models; Multiple primary; Neural networks (computer); Prognosis; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 8244219678     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005765403093     Document Type: Article

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