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Improving recall values in breast cancer diagnosis with Incremental Background Knowledge

datacite.subject.fosCiências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Catarina
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Bernardete
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Noel
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-16T14:46:50Z
dc.date.available2025-12-16T14:46:50Z
dc.date.issued2010-07
dc.descriptionEISBN - 978-1-4244-6918-5
dc.descriptionConference date - 18 July 2010 - 23 July 2010; Conference code - 85188
dc.description.abstractCancer diagnosis is generally the process of using some form of physical or genetic tests or exams, usually referred as patient data, to detect the disease. One of the main problems with cancer diagnosis systems is the lack of labeled data, as well as the difficulties of labeling pre-existing unlabeled data. Thus, there is a growing interest in exploring the use of unlabeled data as a way to improve classification performance in cancer diagnosis. The possible availability of this kind of data for some applications makes it an appealing source of information. In this work we explore an Incremental Background Knowledge (IBK) technique to introduce unlabeled data into the training set by expanding it using initial classifiers to better aid decisions, namely by improving recall values. The defined incremental SVM margin-based method was tested in the Wisconsin-Madison breast cancer diagnosis problem to examine the effectiveness of such techniques in supporting diagnosis.eng
dc.identifier.citationC. Silva, B. Ribeiro and N. Lopes, "Improving recall values in breast cancer diagnosis with Incremental Background Knowledge," The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Barcelona, Spain, 2010, pp. 1-6, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596641.
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/ijcnn.2010.5596641
dc.identifier.eissn2161-4407
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4244-6916-1
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4244-6918-5
dc.identifier.issn2161-4393
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/15083
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherIEEE Canada
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5596641
dc.relation.ispartofThe 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
dc.rights.uriN/A
dc.subjectSupport vector machines
dc.subjectTraining
dc.subjectBreast cancer
dc.subjectMachine learning
dc.subjectLearning systems
dc.subjectVectors
dc.titleImproving recall values in breast cancer diagnosis with Incremental Background Knowledgeeng
dc.typeconference paper
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oaire.citation.conferenceDate2010-07
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceBarcelona, Spain
oaire.citation.titleProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
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person.familyNameSilva
person.givenNameCatarina
person.identifier.ciencia-id1B19-3DDC-BE75
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5656-0061
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