Introduction of affinity set and its application in data-mining example of delayed diagnosis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 10883-10889

  Chen, Yuh Wen ^a   Larbani, Moussa ^b   Hsieh, Cheng Yen ^a   Chen, Chao Wen ^c  

^a DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Affinity set; Data mining; Delayed diagnosis; Emergency room (ER); Neural network; Rough set; Support vector machine; Topology

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY SET; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS PROBLEM; HIGH PROBABILITY; KEY ATTRIBUTES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL PROVIDERS; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTION ACCURACY; ROSETTA; ROUGH SET; VITAL SIGN;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MINING; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROUGH SET THEORY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURVEYS; TOPOLOGY;

ERRORS;

EID: 67349267290     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.020     Document Type: Article

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