Optimal decision making for breast cancer treatment in the presence of cancer regression and type II error in mammography results

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-12583-1_13MaRDI QIDQ5256643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergio A. Vargas, Shengfan Zhang, Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei

Publication date 19 June 2015

Published in Analysis, Modelling, Optimization, and Numerical Techniques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12583-1_13

zbMATH Keywords

breast cancerMarkov decision processesoptimal decision makingmammographycancer regressiondynamic treatment decisionsscreening policies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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