Linguistic hedges fuzzy feature selection for differential diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases

Ahmad Taher Azar, Shaimaa A. El-Said, Valentina Emilia Balas, Teodora Olariu

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Abstract

The differential diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases is a real challenge in dermatology. In diagnosing of these diseases, a biopsy is vital. However, unfortunately these diseases share many histopathological features, as well. Another difficulty for the differential diagnosis is that one disease may show the features of another disease at the beginning stage and may have the characteristic features at the following stages. In this paper, a new Feature Selection based on Linguistic Hedges Neural-Fuzzy classifier is presented for the diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases. The performance evaluation of this system is estimated by using four training-test partition models: 50-50%, 60-40%, 70-30% and 80-20%. The highest classification accuracy of 95.7746% was achieved for 80-20% training-test partition using 3 clusters and 18 fuzzy rules, 93.820% for 50-50% training-test partition using 3 clusters and 18 fuzzy rules, 92.5234% for 70-30% training-test partition using 5 clusters and 30 fuzzy rules, and 91.6084% for 60-40% training-test partition using 6 clusters and 36 fuzzy rules. Therefore, 80-20% training-test partition using 3 clusters and 18 fuzzy rules are the best classification accuracy with RMSE of 6.5139e-013. This research demonstrated that the proposed method can be used for reducing the dimension of feature space and can be used to obtain fast automatic diagnostic systems for other diseases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSoft Computing Applications - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop Soft Computing Applications, SOFA 2012
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages487-500
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783642339400
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, SOFA 2012 - Szeged, Hungary
Duration: 22 Aug 201224 Aug 2012

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume195 AISC
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, SOFA 2012
Country/TerritoryHungary
CitySzeged
Period22/08/1224/08/12

Keywords

  • Erythemato-Squamous Diseases
  • Feature selection (FS)
  • Linguistic Hedge (LH)
  • Soft Computing
  • Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy inference system

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