EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DETECTING BREAST-CANCER

被引:70
作者
FOGEL, DB
WASSON, EC
BOUGHTON, EM
机构
[1] MAUI MEM HOSP, WAILUKU, HI 96793 USA
[2] MAUI ECON DEV BOARD, MAUI, HI 96753 USA
关键词
BREAST CANCER; NEURAL NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING;
D O I
10.1016/0304-3835(95)03916-K
中图分类号
R73 [肿瘤学];
学科分类号
100214 ;
摘要
Artificial neural networks are applied to the problem of detecting breast cancer from histologic data. Evolutionary programming is used to train the networks. This stochastic optimization method reduces the chance of becoming trapped in locally optimal weight sets. Preliminary results indicate that very parsimonious neural nets can outperform other methods reported in the literature on the same data. The results are statistically significant.
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页码:49 / 53
页数:5
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