Bladder Cancer Prognosis
Research from University of Patras, Department of Mathematics provide new insights into bladder cancer prognosis
Published in Oncology Business Week, January 21st, 2007
New research, "Cell-nuclear data reduction and prognostic model selection in bladder tumor recurrence," is the subject of a report. According to a study from Patras, Greece, "The paper aims at improving the prediction of superficial bladder recurrence. To this end, feedforward neural networks (FNNs) and a feature selection method based on unsupervised clustering, were employed. A retrospective prognostic study of 127 patients diagnosed with superficial urinary bladder cancer was performed."
"Images from biopsies were digitized and cell nuclei features were extracted. To design FNN classifiers, different training methods and architectures were investigated. The...
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