Detection of CAN by ensemble classifiers based on ripple down rules

Andrei Kelarev, Richard Dazeley, Andrew Stranieri, John Yearwood, Herbert Jelinek

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Abstract

It is well known that classification models produced by the Ripple Down Rules are easier to maintain and update. They are compact and can provide an explanation of their reasoning making them easy to understand for medical practitioners. This article is devoted to an empirical investigation and comparison of several ensemble methods based on Ripple Down Rules in a novel application for the detection of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) from an extensive data set collected by the Diabetes Complications Screening Research Initiative at Charles Sturt University. Our experiments included essential ensemble methods, several more recent state-of-the-art techniques, and a novel consensus function based on graph partitioning. The results show that our novel application of Ripple Down Rules in ensemble classifiers for the detection of CAN achieved better performance parameters compared with the outcomes obtained previously in the literature.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationKnowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems - 12th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2012, Proceedings
EditorsDeborah Richards, Byeong Ho Kang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages147-159
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783642325403
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event12th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2012, held in conjunction with 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012 - Kuching, Malaysia
Duration: 5 Sep 20126 Sep 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7457 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2012, held in conjunction with 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuching
Period5/09/126/09/12

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