A statistical framework for evaluating neural networks to predict recurrent events in breast cancerFootnote

^1. Based on ‘A statistical evaluation of neural computing approaches to predict recurrent events in breast cancer’, by F. Gorunescu, M. Gorunescu, E. El-Darzi and S. Gorunescu, which appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems IS’08, pp. 11-38–11-43.

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