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

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...

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Main Authors: Sarkar M., Tze-Yun LEONG
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2991
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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Summary: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 neighbors algorithm is simpler than the other techniques that have been applied to this problem. In addition, the Knearest neighbors algorithm produces the overall classification result 1.17% better than the best result known for this problem.