Conformal predictors in early diagnostics of ovarian and breast cancers

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-257

  Devetyarov, Dmitry ^a   Nouretdinov, Ilia ^a   Burford, Brian ^a   Camuzeaux, Stephane ^b   Gentry Maharaj, Aleksandra ^b   Tiss, Ali ^c   Smith, Celia ^c   Luo, Zhiyuan ^a   Chervonenkis, Alexey ^a   Hallett, Rachel ^b   Vovk, Volodya ^a   Waterfield, Mike ^b   Cramer, Rainer ^c   Timms, John F ^b   Sinclair, John ^b   Menon, Usha ^b   Jacobs, Ian ^b   Gammerman, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Biological markers; Breast cancer; Conformal predictors; Early diagnosis; Mass spectrometry; Ovarian cancer; Prediction with confidence; Proteomics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREAST CANCER; CONFORMAL PREDICTORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; OVARIAN CANCERS;

DISEASES;

EID: 84901253186     PISSN: 21926352     EISSN: 21926360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13748-012-0021-y     Document Type: Article

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