A search for the best data mining method to predict melanoma

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2475, Issue , 2002, Pages 538-545

  Grzymała Busse, Jerzy W ^a   Hippe, Zdzisław S ^b  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

ABCD formula; Data mining; Discretization; Melanoma prediction; Rough set theory

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DERMATOLOGY; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; FORECASTING; ONCOLOGY; ROUGH SET THEORY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ABCD FORMULA; AGGLOMERATIVE METHODS; DATA MINING METHODS; DATA MINING SYSTEM; DISCRETIZATION METHOD; DISCRETIZATIONS; LEARNING FROM EXAMPLES; SKIN CANCERS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84942861182     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45813-1_71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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