Evaluation of rule interestingness measures with a clinical dataset on hepatitis

  • Authors:
  • Miho Ohsaki;Shinya Kitaguchi;Kazuya Okamoto;Hideto Yokoi;Takahira Yamaguchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Doshisha Univerisity, 1-3, Tataramiyakodani, Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan;Shizuoka University, 3-5-1, Johoku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan;Shizuoka University, 3-5-1, Johoku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan;Chiba University Hospital, 1-8-1, Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 260-0856, Japan;Keio University, 3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan

  • Venue:
  • PKDD '04 Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This research empirically investigates the performance of conventional rule interestingness measures and discusses their practicality for supporting KDD through human-system interaction in medical domain. We compared the evaluation results by a medical expert and those by selected measures for the rules discovered from a dataset on hepatitis. Recall, Jaccard, Kappa, CST, X2-M, and Peculiarity demonstrated the highest performance, and many measures showed a complementary trend under our experimental conditions. These results indicate that some measures can predict really interesting rules at a certain level and that their combinational use will be useful.