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The article presents an application of Adaptive Splitting and Selection (AdaSS) classifier in the medical decision support system for breast cancer diagnosis. Apart from the canonical malignant versus non-malignant problem we introduced a third class - fibroadenoma, which is a benign tumor of the breast often occurring in women. Medical images are delivered by the Regional Hospital in Zielona Góra, Poland. For the process of segmentation and feature extraction a mixture of Gaussians is used. AdaSS is a combined classifier, based on an evolutionary splitting of feature space into clusters. To increase the overall accuracy of the classification we propose to add a feature selection step to the optimization criterion of the native AdaSS algorithm. Experimental investigation proves that the introduced method is more accurate than previously used classification approaches.
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Krawczyk, B., Filipczuk, P., Woźniak, M. (2012). Adaptive Splitting and Selection Algorithm for Classification of Breast Cytology Images. In: Nguyen, NT., Hoang, K., Jȩdrzejowicz, P. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34630-9_49
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