Title
Outcome prediction in tumour therapy based on Dempster-Shafer theory
Abstract
Outcome prediction plays a vital role in cancer treatment. It can help to update and optimize the treatment planning. In this paper, we aim to find discriminant features from both PET images and clinical characteristics, so as to predict the outcome of a treatment to adapt the therapy. As both information sources are imprecise, we propose a novel feature selection method based on Dempster-Shafer theory to tackle this problem. Then, a specific objective function with spar-sity constraint is developed to search for a feature subset that leads to increasing prediction performance and decreasing data imprecision simultaneously. Our approach was applied to two real data sets concerning to lung tumour et esophageal tumour, showing good performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ISBI.2015.7163817
2015 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Outcome Prediction,Feature Selection,Dempster-Shafer Theory,PET imaging
Data set,Pattern recognition,Feature selection,Computer science,Discriminant,Support vector machine,Radiation treatment planning,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Dempster–Shafer theory,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1945-7928
1
0.36
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunfeng Lian113222.61
Ruan Su255953.00
Thierry Denoeux381574.98
Pierre Vera45910.15