Incremental concept formation approach to learn and discover from a clinical database

  • Von Wun Soo*
  • , Jan Sing Wang
  • , Shih Pu Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The main interest of this research is to discover clinical implications from a large PTCA (Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty) database. A case-based concept formation model D-UNIMEM, modified from Lebowitz's UNIMEM, is proposed for this purpose. In this model, we integrated two kinds of class membership and the index-conjunction class membership. The former is a polythetic clustering approach that serves at the early stage of concept formation. The latter that allows only relevant instances to be placed in the same cluster serves as the later stage of concept formation. D-UNIMEM could extract interesting correlation among features from the learned concept hierarchy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages2973-2978
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 1994
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. Part 1 (of 7) - Orlando, FL, USA
Duration: 27 06 199429 06 1994

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. Part 1 (of 7)
CityOrlando, FL, USA
Period27/06/9429/06/94

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