AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF INPUT REPRESENTATION IN ANFIS MODELLING OF BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL

Hazlina Hamdan, Jonathan M. Garibaldi

2010

Abstract

Fuzzy inference systems have been applied in recent years in various medical fields due to their ability to obtain good results featuring white-box models. Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), which combines adaptive neural network capabilities with the fuzzy logic qualitative approach, has been previously used in modelling survival of breast cancer patients based on patient groups derived from the Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI), as discussed in our previous paper. In this paper, we extend our previous work to examine whether the ANFIS model can be trained to better match the data with the NPI variable represented as a real number, rather than a categorical group. Two input models have been developed and trained with different structures of ANFIS. The performance of these models, in the capability to predict the survival rate in survival of patients following operative surgery for breast cancer, is examined.

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Hamdan H. and M. Garibaldi J. (2010). AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF INPUT REPRESENTATION IN ANFIS MODELLING OF BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and 2nd International Conference on Neural Computation - Volume 1: ICFC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-32-4, pages 99-104. DOI: 10.5220/0003081100990104


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@conference{icfc10,
author={Hazlina Hamdan and Jonathan M. Garibaldi},
title={AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF INPUT REPRESENTATION IN ANFIS MODELLING OF BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and 2nd International Conference on Neural Computation - Volume 1: ICFC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={99-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003081100990104},
isbn={978-989-8425-32-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and 2nd International Conference on Neural Computation - Volume 1: ICFC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF INPUT REPRESENTATION IN ANFIS MODELLING OF BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL
SN - 978-989-8425-32-4
AU - Hamdan H.
AU - M. Garibaldi J.
PY - 2010
SP - 99
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0003081100990104