A new feature selection method based on association rules for diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases

  • Authors:
  • Murat Karabatak;M. Cevdet Ince

  • Affiliations:
  • Fırat University, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, 23119 Elazig, Turkey;Fırat University, Department of Electric-Electronics Engineering, 23119 Elazig, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, a new feature selection method based on Association Rules (AR) and Neural Network (NN) is presented for the diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases. AR is used for reducing the dimension of erythemato-squamous diseases dataset and NN is used for efficient classification. The proposed AR+NN system performance is compared with that of other feature selection algorithms+NN. The dimension of input feature space is reduced from thirty four to twenty four by using AR. In test stage, 3-fold cross validation method is applied to the erythemato-squamous diseases dataset to evaluate the proposed system performances. The correct classification rate of proposed system is 98.61%. This research demonstrated that the AR can be used for reducing the dimension of feature space and proposed AR+NN model can be used to obtain fast automatic diagnostic systems for other diseases.