Outcome prediction in cancer. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Azzam F.G. Taktak and Anthony C. Fisher.
• Other Names: Taktak, Azzam F. G; Dr, Fisher, Anthony C
• Contents: The predictive value of detailed histological staging of surgical resection specimens in oral cancer -- Survival after treatment of intraocular melanoma -- Recent developments in relative survival analysis -- Environmental and genetic risk factors of lung cancer -- Chaos, cancer, the cellular operating system and the prediction of survival in head and neck cancer -- Flexible hazard modelling for outcome prediction in cancer: perspectives for the use of bioinformatics knowledge -- Information geometry for survival analysis and feature selection by neural networks -- Artificial neural networks used in the survival analysis of breast cancer patients: a node-negative study -- The use of artificial neural networks for the diagnosis and estimation of prognosis in cancer patients -- Machine learning contribution to solve prognostic medical problems -- Classification of brain tumors by pattern recognition of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopic data -- Towards automatic risk analysis for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer based on pedigree data -- The impact of microarray technology in brain cancer -- The web and the new generation of medical information systems -- Geoconda: a web environment for multi-centre research -- The development and execution of medical prediction models.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (482 pages)
• Subjects: 616.99/4; Cancer -- Diagnosis; Cancer -- Prognosis; Neural networks (Computer science); Survival analysis (Biometry)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080468037; 0080468039
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