A new feature selection algorithm for two-class classification problems and application to endometrial cancer

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2976-2982

  Ahsen, M Eren ^a   Singh, Nitin K ^a   Boren, Todd ^b   Vidyasagar, M ^a   White, Michael A ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; LINEAR CLASSIFIERS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; RECURSIVE FEATURE ELIMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWO-CLASS CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; TWO-FOLD-CROSS-VALIDATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84874285158     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2012.6426819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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