Mining Constrained Association Rules to Predict Heart Disease

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Ordonez;Edward Omiecinski;Levien de Braal;Cesar A. Santana;Norberto Ezquerra;Jose A. Taboada;David Cooke;Elizabeth Krawczynska;Ernest V. Garcia

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '01 Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This work describes our experiences on discovering association rules in medical data to predict heart disease. We focus on two aspects in this work: mapping medical data toa transaction format suitable for mining association rules and identifying useful constraints. Based on these aspects we introduce an improved algorithm to discover constrainedassociation rules. We present an experimental sectionexplaining several interesting discovered rules.