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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A Framework for Improving Breast Cancer Care Decisions by using Self-Organizing Maps to Profile Patients and Quantify their Attributes

Spencer, Vanda Victoria 10 August 2018 (has links)
Considering the commonality of breast cancer among women in the United States and the increasing popularity of precision medicine and data analytics in healthcare, the aim of this study was to use self-organizing maps (SOM) to profile and make decisions about breast cancer patients. Breast cancer mass measurements were combined with nine non-medical attributes—family income, history of cancer, level of education, preference of probability level, presence of dependents, employment status, marital status, age, and location—that were randomly generated based on recent population statistics and fed into a SOM. The SOM’s accuracy was evaluated at around 80%. To show the decision-making capabilities of the SOM, a subset of the patients were treated as new patients and placed on the map. Profiles of these clusters were created to show how decisions made about patients’ diagnosis, delivery, and treatment differed based on the cluster to which they belonged.

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