Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 43-53 , May 2006

Knowledge-discovery incorporated evolutionary search for microcalcification detection in breast cancer diagnosis

  • Yonghong Peng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computing, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1274 23 3963; fax: +44 1274 23 3920.
    • ,
  • Bin Yao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK
    • ,
  • Jianmin Jiang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK

Received 6 February 2005 ,Revised 13 September 2005 ,Accepted 29 September 2005.

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PII: S0933-3657(05)00104-1

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2005.09.001

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 43-53 , May 2006

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