The reliability issue of computer-aided breast cancer diagnosis

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Computer Science

Publication Date

8-2000

Abstract

This paper introduces a number of reliability criteria for computer-aided diagnostic systems for breast cancer. These criteria are then used to analyze some published neural network systems. It is also shown that the property of monotonicity for the data is rather natural in this medical domain, and it has the potential to significantly improve the reliability of breast cancer diagnosis while maintaining a general representation power. A central part of this paper is devoted to the representation/narrow vicinity hypothesis, upon which existing computer-aided diagnostic methods heavily rely. The paper also develops a framework for determining the validity of this hypothesis. The same framework can be used to construct a diagnostic procedure with improved reliability.

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This article was originally published in Computers and Biomedical Research. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

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Journal

Computers and Biomedical Research

Rights

Copyright © 2000 by Academic Press

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