Combining neural learners with the naive bayes fusion rule for breast tissue classification

Yunfeng Wu, S. C. Ng

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Abstract

Early detection of suspicious breast lesions is commonly performed by analysis of breast profiles detected by effective modalities. Tissue distribution in each modality can provide important information about the elastic characteristics of breast which is useful for computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, the Naive Bayes (NB) fusion rule is utilized to combine a group of Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural learners in a multiple classifier system for classification of breast tissues. The empirical results show the NB fusion rule may effectively diminish the mean-squared errors, and also improve approximately 15% classification accuracy, which is significantly better than the component RBF neural learners. Moreover, the NB fusion rule also outperforms the widely used simple average and majority voting fusion rules.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICIEA 2007
Subtitle of host publication2007 Second IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications
Pages709-713
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event2007 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2007 - Harbin, China
Duration: 23 May 200725 May 2007

Publication series

NameICIEA 2007: 2007 Second IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications

Conference

Conference2007 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period23/05/0725/05/07

Keywords

  • Breast cancer diagnosis
  • Classification
  • Ensemble
  • Multiple classier system
  • Naive bayes rule
  • Neural networks

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