Discovering human understandable fuzzy diagnostic rules from medical data

نویسندگان

  • Giovanna Castellano
  • Anna Maria Fanelli
  • Corrado Mencar
چکیده

The paper describes an approach to discover transparent fuzzy rules from data, which can be effectively used in fuzzy model-based medical diagnosis. The approach is based on three main stages. First, available symptoms measurements are clustered by our Crisp Double Clustering scheme, which identifies, in the first instance, informative prototypes in the original measurements space by a vector quantization algorithm. Then, these prototypes are clustered on each one-dimensional projection to provide information for the second stage, where fuzzy information granules are properly quantified in terms of fuzzy sets that are immediate to read and understand. Finally, the derived fuzzy sets are employed to define a rule-based fuzzy inference system that can be used for fuzzy diagnosis. The approach has been applied to the Aachen Aphasia dataset.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003