Application of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Cross Entropy Measure in Decision Making for Medical Diagnosis

In medical investigations, uncertainty is a major
challenging problem in making decision for doctors/experts to
identify the diseases with a common set of symptoms and also has
been extensively increasing in medical diagnosis problems. The
theory of cross entropy for intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) is an
effective approach in coping uncertainty in decision making for
medical diagnosis problem. The main focus of this paper is to
propose a new intuitionistic fuzzy cross entropy measure (IFCEM),
which aid in reducing the uncertainty and doctors/experts will take
their decision easily in context of patient’s disease. It is shown that
the proposed measure has some elegant properties, which
demonstrates its potency. Further, it is also exemplified in detail the
efficiency and utility of the proposed measure by using a real life
case study of diagnosis the disease in medical science.

• Shikha Maheshwari
• Amit Srivastava

• Intuitionistic fuzzy cross entropy (IFCEM)
• intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS)
• medical diagnosis
• uncertainty.

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