Automated acquisition of rules from clinical databases and its evaluation
Tsumoto, S.; Tanaka, H.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 52 Pt 1: 649-653
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 10384535 Document Number: 489727
This paper presents an approach to induction of rules from databases using rough set model. The system was evaluated on three clinical databases, and induced results were compared with other conventional rule induction methods and medical experts' rules. The results show that the introduced results outperforms other methods, but that the description length of induced rules is a little short, compared with that of experts' rules, which suggests that experts' rules are combination of different kinds of reasoning, rather than simple classification.