Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

5-2000

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is now recognised as a major worldwide public health problem. At present, about 100 million people are registered as diabetic patients. Many clinical, social and economic problems occur as a consequence of insulin-dependent diabetes. Treatment attempts to prevent or delay complications by applying ‘optimal’ glycaemic control. Therefore, there is a continuous need for effective monitoring of the patient. Given the popularity of decision tree learning algorithms as well as neural networks for knowledge classification which is further used for decision support, this paper examines their relative merits by applying one algorithm from each family on a medical problem; that of recommending a particular diabetes regime. For the purposes of this study, OC1 a descendant of Quinlan’s ID3 algorithm was chosen as decision tree learning algorithm and a generating shrinking algorithm for learning arbitrary classifications as a neural network algorithm. These systems were trained on 646 cases derived from two countries in Europe and were tested on 100 cases which were different from the original 646 cases.

Keywords

decision tree induction, neural networks, diabetes management

Discipline

Health Information Technology | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation 2000: May 23-26, Berlin

First Page

852

Last Page

858

ISBN

9783906454214

Publisher

ICSC

City or Country

Millet, AL

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

http://usir.salford.ac.uk/9403/

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