Staging of Prostate Cancer Using Automatic Feature Selection, Sampling and Dempster-Shafer Fusion

A novel technique of automatically selecting the best pairs of features and sampling techniques to predict the stage of prostate cancer is proposed in this study. The problem of class imbalance, which is prominent in most medical data sets is also addressed here. Three feature subsets obtained by th...

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Main Authors: Sandeep Chandana, Henry Leung, Kiril Trpkov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-01-01
Series:Cancer Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.la-press.com/staging-of-prostate-cancer-using-automatic-feature-selection-sampling--a1305