@article{
author = "Jevtic, Dubravka R. and Avramov Ivić, Milka and Reljin, Irini S. and Reljin, Branimir D. and Plavec, Goran I. and Petrović, Slobodan D. and Mijin, Dušan",
year = "2014",
abstract = "The automated, computer-aided method for differentiation and classification of malignant (M) from benign (B) cases, by analyzing the UV/VIS spectra of pleural effusions is described. It was shown that by two independent objective features, the maximum of Katz fractal dimension (KFDmax) and the area under normalized UV/VIS absorbance curve (Area), highly reliable M-B classification is possible. In the Area-KFDmax space M and B samples are linearly separable permitting thus the use of linear support vector machine as a classification tool. By analyzing 104 samples of UV/VIS spectra of pleural effusions (88 M and 16 B) collected from patients at the Clinic for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, the accuracy of 95.45% for M cases and 100% for B cases are obtained by using the proposed method. It was shown that by applying some modifications, which are suggested in the paper, the accuracy of 100% for M cases can be reached.",
publisher = "Elsevier",
journal = "Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications",
title = "Diagnostic spectroscopic and computer-aided evaluation of malignancy from UV/VIS spectra of clear pleural effusions",
volume = "403",
pages = "206-216",
doi = "10.1016/j.physa.2014.02.026"
}