Rough sets to help medical diagnosis - Evidence from a Taiwan's clinic

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 9293-9298

  Yang, Hsu Hao ^a   Wu, Chang Lun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision rules; Medical diagnosis; Otolaryngology; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

CERTAIN RULES; CONDITION ATTRIBUTES; DECISION ATTRIBUTES; DECISION RULES; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTIES; MEDICAL DATUM; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; ROUGH SETS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 60849087662     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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