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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2014

A genetic fuzzy system for unstable angina risk assessment.

Wei Dong, Zhengxing Huang, Lei Ji, Huilong Duan

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Wei Dong
Zhengxing HuangCollege of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, 310008, Zhou Yiqing Building 510, Zheda road 38#, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. zhengxing.h@gmail.com.
Lei Ji
Huilong Duan
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CNZhejiang University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUnstable Angina (UA) is widely accepted as a critical phase of coronary heart disease with patients exhibiting widely varying risks. Early risk assessment of UA is at the center of the management program, which allows physicians to categorize patients according to the clinical characteristics and stratification of risk and different prognosis. Although many prognostic models have been widely used for UA risk assessment in clinical practice, a number of studies have highlighted possible shortcomings. One serious drawback is that existing models lack the ability to deal with the intrinsic uncertainty about the variables utilized.

methodsIn order to help physicians refine knowledge for the stratification of UA risk with respect to vagueness in information, this paper develops an intelligent system combining genetic algorithm and fuzzy association rule mining. In detail, it models the input information's vagueness through fuzzy sets, and then applies a genetic fuzzy system on the acquired fuzzy sets to extract the fuzzy rule set for the problem of UA risk assessment.

resultsThe proposed system is evaluated using a real data-set collected from the cardiology department of a Chinese hospital, which consists of 54 patient cases. 9 numerical patient features and 17 categorical patient features that appear in the data-set are selected in the experiments. The proposed system made the same decisions as the physician in 46 (out of a total of 54) tested cases (85.2%).

conclusionsBy comparing the results that are obtained through the proposed system with those resulting from the physician's decision, it has been found that the developed model is highly reflective of reality. The proposed system could be used for educational purposes, and with further improvements, could assist and guide young physicians in their daily work.

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Angina, UnstableFuzzy LogicModels, GeneticPrognosisAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceFeasibility StudiesHumansRisk Assessment

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