Fads and fallacies in the name of small-sample microarray classification - A highlight of misunderstanding and erroneous usage in the applications of genomic signal processing

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-99

  Braga Neto, Ulisses M ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DNA; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENES; MICROARRAYS; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLASSIFIER DESIGN; GENOMIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; MICROARRAY CLASSIFICATION; SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 85032751958     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2007.273062     Document Type: Article

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