Neurocomputing: foundations of research
Neurocomputing: foundations of research
Self-organization and associative memory: 3rd edition
Self-organization and associative memory: 3rd edition
Neurocomputing
Learning internal representations by error propagation
Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1
Artificial Neural Networks: Theory and Applications
Artificial Neural Networks: Theory and Applications
Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons and Future Directions
Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons and Future Directions
Machine Learning
Self-organizing map for cluster analysis of a breast cancer database
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Nearest neighbor pattern classification
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Embedded system for diagnosing dysfunctions in the lower urinary tract
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Instance-based classifiers applied to medical databases: Diagnosis and knowledge extraction
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthropathy (SpA) are the two most frequent forms of chronic autoimmune arthritis. These diseases lead to important inflammatory symptoms resulting in an important functional impairment. This paper introduces a self-organizing artificial neural network combined with a case-based reasoning evaluation criterion to predict diagnosis in patients with early arthritis. Results show that 47.2% of the sample space can be predicted with an accuracy of 84.0% and attaining a high confidence level. 37.7% of the sample space is classified with an overall accuracy of 65.0%. The remaining group was labeled as ''undetermined''. A general prediction accuracy of 75.6% is reached, exceeding the performance of other approaches such as a backpropagation neural network and the Quest decision tree program. Furthermore, by using this new method, more specifically case-based reasoning, as a helpful tool to classify patients with early arthritis, the possibility of a confidence measure is given, indicating a degree of ''belief'' of the system in its results. This is often an important feature when dealing with diagnosis in human patients.