Diagnosis of chest diseases using artificial immune system

  • Authors:
  • Orhan Er;Nejat Yumusak;Feyzullah Temurtas

  • Affiliations:
  • Bozok University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 66200 Yozgat, Turkey;Sakarya University, Department of Computer Engineering, 54187 Adapazari, Turkey;Bozok University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 66200 Yozgat, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Chest diseases are one of the greatest health problems for people living in the developing world. Millions of people are diagnosed every year with a chest disease in the world. Chronic obstructive pulmonary, pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, lung cancer diseases are most important chest diseases and these are very common illnesses in Turkey. In this paper, a study on chest diseases diagnosis was realized by using artificial immune system. We obtained the classification accuracy with artificial immune system 93.84%. The result of the study was compared with the results of the previous similar studies reported focusing on chest diseases diagnosis. The chest diseases dataset were prepared from a chest diseases hospital's database using patient's epicrisis reports.