Rough set based feature selection for improved differentiation of traditional Chinese medical data

  • Na Chu*
  • , Lizhuang Ma
  • , Jing Li
  • , Ping Liu
  • , Yang Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Medical data often contains a large number of irrelevant and redundant features and a relatively small number of cases, which dramatically impact quality of diseases diagnosis. Hence, in quest for higher differentiation quality, feature selection is expected to improve differentiation performance. In this paper, we describe a heuristic approach based on Rough Sets theory and information theory, for generation of a reduct approximation of a medical dataset. The algorithm consists of two phases: initializing starting point phase and heuristic search phase. The experimental results on the medical datasets of UCI machine learning repository and traditional Chinese medicine datasets show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently select critical features and improve the performance of differentiation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2010
Pages2667-2672
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2010 - Yantai, Shandong, China
Duration: 10 Aug 201012 Aug 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2010 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2010
Volume6

Conference

Conference2010 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityYantai, Shandong
Period10/08/1012/08/10

Keywords

  • Dimensionality reduction
  • Liver cirrhosist
  • Rough set
  • Traditional Chinese medicine

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