Random forest: A reliable tool for patient response prediction

2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 289-296

  Dittman, David ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Wald, Randall ^a   Napolitano, Amri ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Microarray; patient response; Random Forest

Indexed keywords

HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATASETS; IN-FIELD; PATIENT RESPONSE; RANDOM FORESTS; RESEARCH TEAMS; RESPONSE PREDICTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; MICROARRAYS;

FORECASTING;

CLASSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTATION; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84856009145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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