An approach for generating fuzzy rules from decision trees

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 124, Issue , 2006, Pages 581-586

  Razavi, Amir R ^a   Nyström, Mikael ^a   Stachowicz, Marian S ^b   Gill, Hans ^a   Åhlfeldt, Hans ^a   Shahsavar, Nosrat ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; Decision Tree Induction; Distant Metastasis; Fuzzy Set Theory

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; DISEASES; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY RULES; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; TENSORS;

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; BREAST CANCER; DECISION TREE INDUCTION; DISCRETIZATIONS; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE BREAST; FUZZIFICATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 39049191838     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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