• DocumentCode
    1353789
  • Title

    Cartesian Genetic Programming and its Application to Medical Diagnosis

  • Author

    Smith, Stephen L.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of York, York, UK
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    56
  • Lastpage
    67
  • Abstract
    Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) is a form of genetic programming that is flexible and adaptable to a range of problems. In this article, a particular representation of CGP, known as implicit context representation CGP is presented and its application to two medical conditions: the diagnosis of Parkinson´ disease and the detection of breast cancer from mammograms. CGP has a number of advantages over conventional genetic programming and is well suited to the highly non-linear problems considered here. Summary results are presented for the application of CGP to real patient data that are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further clinical trials which are currently in progress.
  • Keywords
    diseases; genetic algorithms; mammography; medical computing; patient diagnosis; CGP; Parkinson disease; breast cancer detection; cartesian genetic programming; context representation; mammograms; medical diagnosis application; Biochemistry; Biological cells; Context modeling; Genetic programming; Medical diagnostic imaging; Shape analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1556-603X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCI.2011.942583
  • Filename
    6052376