Application of K-nearest neighbors algorithm on breast cancer diagnosis problem.

• Main Authors: Sarkar M., Tze-Yun LEONG
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• Subjects: Health Information Technology; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2991
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper addresses the Breast Cancer diagnosis problem as a pattern classification problem. Specifically, this problem is studied using the Wisconsin-Madison Breast Cancer data set. The K-nearest neighbors algorithm is employed as the classifier. Conceptually and implementation-wise, the K-nearest...