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Brain Cancer
New brain cancer study findings have been published by J. Kazmierska and colleagues
April 22nd, 2008
Researchers in Poznan, Poland conducted a study "To study the accuracy, specificity and sensitivity of the Naive Bayesian Classifier (NBC) in the assessment of individual risk of cancer relapse or progression after radiotherapy (RT). Data of 142 brain tumour patients irradiated from 2000 to 2005 were analyzed." "Ninety-six attributes related to disease, patient and treatment were chosen. Attributes in binary form consisted of the training set for NBC learning. NBC calculated an individual conditional probability of being assigned to: relapse or progression (1), or no relapse or progression (0) group. Accuracy, attribute selection and quality of classifier were...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-04-22)
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