The Journal of Cognitive Systems, vol.5, no.1, pp.23-32, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
— In this study, survival for head and neck cancer disease
was estimated using machine learning methods. Starting from the date
on which the head and neck cancer disease was diagnosed, without a
maximum time limit, at the end of the minimum 8-month period, it is
estimated that the patient will be alive or not. Seven classifying
machine-learning predictive methods were used in the study. The main
goal of this study is to estimate the survivability of head and neck
cancer patients and to provide a decision aid for cancer management
with applied estimation methods and results. The results obtained by
the application of the designed methods are examined and results with
extremely high accuracy rates are obtained.