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Breast cancer relapse prediction is an important step in the complex decision-making process of deciding the type of treatment to be applied to patients after surgery. Some non-linear models, like neural networks, have been successfully applied to this task but they suffer from the problem of extracting the underlying rules, and knowing how the methods operate can help to a better understanding of the cancer relapse problem. A recently introduced constructive algorithm (DASG) that creates compact neural network architectures is applied to a dataset of early breast cancer patients with the aim of testing the predictive ability of the new method. The DASG method works with Boolean input data and for that reason a transformation procedure was applied to the original data. The degradation in the predictive performance due to the transformation of the data is also analyzed using the new method and other standard algorithms.
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Franco, L., Subirats, J.L., Molina, I., Alba, E., Jerez, J.M. (2007). Early Breast Cancer Prognosis Prediction and Rule Extraction Using a New Constructive Neural Network Algorithm. In: Sandoval, F., Prieto, A., Cabestany, J., Graña, M. (eds) Computational and Ambient Intelligence. IWANN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73007-1_121
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