Extraction of Experts' Decision Rules from Clinical Databases Using Rough Set Model
Title:
Extraction of Experts' Decision Rules from Clinical Databases Using Rough Set Model
Author:
Tsumoto, Shusaku
Appeared in:
Intelligent data analysis
Paging:
Volume 2 (2013) nr. 3 pages 215-227
Year:
2013-06-14
Contents:
One of the most important problems on rule induction methods is that they cannot extract rules, which plausibly represent experts' decision processes. On one hand, rule induction methods induce probabilistic rules, the description length of which is too short, compared with the experts' rules. On the other hand, construction of Bayesian networks generates too lengthy rules. In this paper, the characteristics of experts' rules are closely examined and a new approach to extract plausible rules is introduced, which consists of the following three procedures. First, the characterization of decision attributes (given classes) is extracted from databases and the classes are classified into several groups with respect to the characterization. Then, two kinds of sub-rules, characterization rules for each group and discrimination rules for each class in the group are induced. Finally, those two parts are integrated into one rule for each decision attribute. The proposed method was evaluated on medical databases, the experimental results of which show that induced rules correctly represent experts' decision processes.
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