Discretisation does affect the performance of Bayesian networks

Res. and Dev. in Intelligent Syst. XXVII: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intel. Sys. XVIII - AI 2010, 30th SGAI Int. Conf. on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intel.

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 237-250

  Robben, Saskia ^a   Velikova, Marina ^a   Lucas, Peter J F ^a   Samulski, Maurice ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BREAST CANCER SCREENING; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CONTINUOUS DATA; CONTINUOUS FEATURES; DISCRETISATION; ENTROPY-BASED METHODS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; SIMPLER ALGORITHMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84875269531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-130-1_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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