An algorithm for the prediction of attendance to a breast screening unit in the UK

Studying data from the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Breast Screening Unit in the UK, this paper concentrates on a proposal of a predictive algorithm for attendance to the screening unit under study. A comparative assessment of the performance of the proposed algorithm with well-known methods of prediction is also discussed. From the results, it can be concluded that the proposed algorithm attains a similar predictive performance to the traditional Artificial Neural Network methods, with the bonus that it is better suited for this particular application. The performance of the Logistic Regression method in general, is inferior to that of the ANN methods for this application.