Abstract

Data Mining is a technique to extract the hidden knowledge of information. Among several data mining methods classification is especially useful in the field of medical diagnosis for decision making. In this study, a hybrid approach: CART decision tree classifier with feature selection and boosting ensemble method has been considered to evaluate the performance of classifier. Various Breast cancer data sets are considered for this study as breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women.

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