DM: RE: Medical Data Mining

[George John]

My publications site has a paper comparing simple statistical methods
to bagged classification trees in prostate cancer detection.  
Go to http://robotics.stanford.edu/~gjohn , click on "publications" 
and
search for "Medicine."
This was presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings conference
in 1998.  In addition to our experiments, we tried to do a reasonable 
survey of medical literature that uses data mining.  There's a lot
out there, in particular involving classification trees modified to do
survival analysis.  I think there are a few references involving GA's 
as
well.

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George H. John              xenon.stanford.edu/~gjohn
Data Mining Guru, E.piphany          www.epiphany.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael Bastos Peixoto- Projeto CoMFi 
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 3:37 PM
> To:   datamine-l@nautilus-sys.com
> Subject:      DM: Medical Data Mining
> 
>    I'm a graduate student from Brazil working in a project in 
>Medical Data
> 
> Mining. I'd like to get some more references about medical 
>applications 
> of data mining, especially using genetic algorithms for 
>classification 
> task.
>    Thanks
>