A hybrid neural network/genetic algorithm applied to breast cancer detection and recurrence

Expert Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 243-254

  Belciug, Smaranda ^a   Gorunescu, Florin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

cancer detection and recurrence; evolutionary training; genetic algorithms; Java implementation; neural networks

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CANCER DETECTION; EVOLUTIONARY TRAINING; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GAS); HYBRID NEURAL NETWORKS; JAVA IMPLEMENTATION; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NEURAL NETWORKS (NNS);

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84880324787     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2012.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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