Symbolic Exposition of Medical Data-Sets: A Data Mining Workbench to Inductively Derive Data-Defining Symbolic Rules

  • Authors:
  • Syed Sibte Raza Abidi;Kok Meng Hoe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CBMS '02 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.01

Visualization

Abstract

The application of data mining techniques upon medical data is certainly beneficial forresearchers interested in discerning the com lexity of healthcare rocesses in real-lifeoperational situations.In this paper we resent a methodology,together with its computationalimplementation,for the automated extraction of data-defining CNF symbolic rules frommedical data-sets comprising both annotated and un-annotated attributes.We ropose ahybrid approach for symbolic rule extraction which features a sequence of methods includingdata clustering,data discretization and eventually symbolic rule discovery via rough setapproximation.We present a generic data mining workbench that can generate cluster/class-defining symbolic rules from medical data,such that the resultant symbolic rules are directlya licable to medical rule-based expert systems.