Computational intelligence for heart disease diagnosis: A medical knowledge driven approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-104

  Nahar, Jesmin ^a   Imam, Tasadduq ^a   Tickle, Kevin S ^a   Chen, Yi Ping Phoebe ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Cleveland data; Computational intelligence; Feature selection; Heart disease

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CLEVELAND; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; EXPERT JUDGMENT; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; HEART DISEASE; HEART DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; IMBALANCED DATA; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; PERFORMANCE OF CLASSIFIER; SELECTION MECHANISM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84866062110     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.032     Document Type: Article

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