Extraction of experts' decision rules from clinical databases using rough set model

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-227

  Tsumoto, Shusaku ^a  

^a Tokyo Medical and Dental University ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Data mining; Knowledge discovery in databases; Medical knowledge acquisition; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DATABASE; DECISION ATTRIBUTE; DECISION PROCESS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE; MEDICAL DATABASE; PROBABILISTIC RULES; ROUGH SET MODELS; RULE INDUCTION METHODS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHARACTERIZATION; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL EDUCATION;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 0000719753     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IDA-1998-2305     Document Type: Article

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