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Scientists at Yibin University Release New Data on Lung Cancer

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 7th, 2011

2011 AUG 7 -- According to the authors of recent research from Yibin, People's Republic of China, "The detection of lung cancer has a special value in the diagnosis of cancer diseases. Based on nine elemental concentrations (i.e., chromium, iron, manganese, aluminum, cadmium, copper, zinc, nickel, and selenium) in urine samples and an ensemble linear discriminant analysis (ELDA), a detection method for lung cancer has been developed."

"A dataset containing 30 healthy samples and 27 lung cancer samples is used for experiment. The whole dataset was first split into a training set with 29 samples and a test set with 28 samples. The prediction results from the...

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