Supervised neuro-fuzzy clustering for life science applications

  • Authors:
  • Jürgen Paetz

  • Affiliations:
  • J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISBMDA'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Biological and Medical Data Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Classification, clustering and rule generation are important tasks in multidimensional data analysis. The combination of clustering or classification with rule generation gives an explanation for the achieved results. Especially in life science applications experts are interested in explanations to understand the underlying data. The usage of supervised neuro-fuzzy systems is a suitable approach for this combined task. Not always classification labels are available for the data when considering new problem areas in life science. Since we had already used a supervised neuro-fuzzy system for some applications, our aim in the case studies was to use the same neuro-fuzzy classifier for clustering, generating understandable rules also for clusters. To do so, we added Monte-Carlo random data to the original data and performed the clustering task with the present classifier in the medical, chemical, and biological domain.