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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
Classification performance of data mining algorithms applied
to breast cancer data
Vítor Santos, Nuno Datia & M.P.M. Pato
ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we study how several classification algorithms perform when applied to a
breast cancer dataset. The challenge is to develop models for computer-aided detection (CAD), capable to
classify, at early stages, masses spotted in X-ray images. The dataset was available at KDD CUP 2008. The
imbalanced nature of the dataset and its high-dimensiona ...