Title :
Early Detection of Prostate Cancer with Classifier Ensembles
Author :
Wichard, Joerg D. ; Cammann, Henning ; Tolxdorff, Thomas ; Stephan, Carsten
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Med. Inf., Charity Universitatsmed., Berlin
Abstract :
We investigate the performance of different classification models and their ability to recognize prostate cancer in an early state. We build ensembles of classification models in order to increase the classification performance. We measure the performance of our models in an extensive cross- validation procedure. The data sets come from clinical examinations and some of the classification models are already in use to support the urologists in their clinical work.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; cancer; cellular biophysics; medical computing; pattern classification; classifier ensembles; clinical work; extensive cross-validation procedure; prostate cancer; urologists; Cancer detection; Classification tree analysis; Linear discriminant analysis; Mathematical model; Neural networks; Principal component analysis; Prostate cancer; Regression tree analysis; Scattering; Support vector machines;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies, 2007. FBIT 2007
Conference_Location :
Jeju City
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2999-8
DOI :
10.1109/FBIT.2007.38