A three-stage expert system based on support vector machines for thyroid disease diagnosis

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1953-1963

  Chen, Hui Ling ^a,b   Yang, Bo ^a,b   Wang, Gang ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a,b   Chen, Yi Dong ^c   Liu, Da You ^a,b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Hangzhou Command College of Chinese People's Armed Police Force   (China)

Author keywords

Expert system; Fisher score; Particle swarm optimization; Support; Thyroid disease diagnosis; Vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERT SYSTEM; MACHINE LEARNING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THYROID DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 84864041349     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9655-8     Document Type: Article

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