The Evidential Reasoning Approach to Medical Diagnosis using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Dempster-Shafer Theory

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 75-94

  Wang, Yanni ^a,c   Dai, Yaping ^a   Chen, Yu Wang ^b   Meng, Fancheng ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer theory; evidential reasoning; Fuzzy sets; inclusion measure; medical diagnosis; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; EVIDENTIAL REASONING APPROACHES; INCLUSION MEASURE; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; UNCERTAINTY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84918529970     PISSN: 18756891     EISSN: 18756883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2014.964009     Document Type: Article

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