title: Evolving neural networks for detecting breast cancer.
abstract: Artificial neural networks are applied to the problem of detecting breast cancer from histologic data. Evolutionary programming is used to train the networks. This stochastic optimization method reduces the chance of becoming trapped in locally optimal weight sets. Preliminary results indicate that very parsimonious neural nets can outperform other methods reported in the literature on the same data. The results are statistically significant.
authors.affiliation: Natural Selection, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Fogel
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Wasson
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Boughton
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012984:Software