Clustering‐based approach for medical data classification

• Published in: Concurrency and computation Vol. 31; no. 14
• Main Authors: Kodabagi, Mallikarjun M., Tikotikar, Ahelam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 25.07.2019
• Subjects: Classification; Classifiers; Clustering; Datasets; Decision analysis; Decision support systems; effective fuzzy rule classifier; fuzzy rules; Fuzzy systems; Machine learning; medical decision support system; UCI medical dataset
• ISSN: 1532-0626; 1532-0634
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5079

Summary Medical data records are growing enormously in present days due to the growth of various medical technologies and population of the globe. It is a difficult task for a medical expert to process these data records to identify and provide treatment regarding the disease of patient. Hence, it is necessary to automate the processing of such medical data using machine learning‐based Medical Decision Support System. In this proposed work, an Effective Fuzzy Rule Classifier (EFRC)–based decision support system is used for analysis of UCI medical dataset for identification of disease of patients. Initially, the method determines the best centroid value for each of the attribute using training dataset. Furthermore, the centroid value is refined using test samples. The refined centroid values of all the attributes are used by the fuzzy classifier for medical data classification. Experimental results have proven that EFRC performs better classification than existing systems in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity.