Breast cancer identification: KDD CUP winner's report

We describe the ideas and methodologies that we developed in addressing the KDD Cup 2008 on early breast cancer detection, and discuss how they contributed to our success. The most important components of our solution were 1) the identification of predictive information in the patient identifier, 2) a linear SVM on the 117 provided features, and 3) a heuristic post-processing approach to optimize the evaluation criteria.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGKDD
• Authors: Claudia Perlich, Prem Melville, Yan Liu 0002, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Richard D. Lawrence, Saharon Rosset
• Keywords: Breast Cancer Detection, Heuristic Post-processing Approach, KDD Cup, SIGKDD 2008