A Novel Fuzzy-Neural Based Medical Diagnosis System

In this paper, application of artificial neural networks in typical disease diagnosis has been investigated. The real procedure of medical diagnosis which usually is employed by physicians was analyzed and converted to a machine implementable format. Then after selecting some symptoms of eight different diseases, a data set contains the information of a few hundreds cases was configured and applied to a MLP neural network. The results of the experiments and also the advantages of using a fuzzy approach were discussed as well. Outcomes suggest the role of effective symptoms selection and the advantages of data fuzzificaton on a neural networks-based automatic medical diagnosis system.

Authors:

• S. Moein
• S. A. Monadjemi
• P. Moallem

Keywords:

• Artificial Neural Networks
• Fuzzy Logic
• MedicalDiagnosis
• Symptoms
• Fuzzification.

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