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Gain ratio based fuzzy weighted association rule mining classifier for medical diagnostic interface

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The health care environment still needs knowledge based discovery for handling wealth of data. Extraction of the potential causes of the diseases is the most important factor for medical data mining. Fuzzy association rule mining is well-performed better than traditional classifiers but it suffers from the exponential growth of the rules produced. In the past, we have proposed an information gain based fuzzy association rule mining algorithm for extracting both association rules and member-ship functions of medical data to reduce the rules. It used a ranking based weight value to identify the potential attribute. When we take a large number of distinct values, the computation of information gain value is not feasible. In this paper, an enhanced approach, called gain ratio based fuzzy weighted association rule mining, is thus proposed for distinct diseases and also increase the learning time of the previous one. Experimental results show that there is a marginal improvement in the attribute selection process and also improvement in the classifier accuracy. The system has been implemented in Java platform and verified by using benchmark data from the UCI machine learning repository.

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NITHYA, N.S., DURAISWAMY, K. Gain ratio based fuzzy weighted association rule mining classifier for medical diagnostic interface. Sadhana 39, 39–52 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-013-0198-1

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