Aboul Ella Hassanien (Abo)

Rough sets offer an effective approach of managing uncertainties and can be employed for tasks such as data dependency analysis, feature identification, dimensionality reduction, and pattern classification. As these tasks are common in many medical applications it is only natural that rough sets, despite their relative ‘youth’ compared to other techniques, provide a suitable method in such applications. In this paper, we provide a short summary on the use of rough sets in the medical informatics domain, focussing on applications of medical image segmentation, pattern classification and computer assisted medical decision making.

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The risk of hepatitis-C virus is considered as a challenge in
the field of medicine. Applying feature reduction technique and generating
rules based on the selected features were considered as an important
step in data mining. It is needed by medical experts to analyze the generated
rules to find out if these rules are important in real life cases.
This paper presents an application of a rough set analysis to discover
the dependency between the attributes, and to generate a set of reducts
consisting of a minimal number of attributes. The experimental results
obtained, show that the overall accuracy offered by the rough sets is high.

Extensive amounts of knowledge and data stored in medical databases require the development of specialized tools for storing, accessing, analysis, and effectiveness usage of stored knowledge and data. Intelligent methods such as neural networks, fuzzy sets, decision trees, and expert systems are, slowly but steadily, applied in the medical fields. Recently, rough set theory is a new intelligent technique was used for the discovery of data dependencies, data reduction, approximate set classification, and rule induction from databases.

In this paper, we present a rough set method for generating classification rules from a set of observed 360 samples of the breast cancer data. The attributes are selected, normalized and then the rough set dependency rules are generated directly from the real value attribute vector. Then the rough set reduction technique is applied to find all reducts of the data which contains the minimal subset of attributes that are associated with a class label for classification. Experimental results from applying the rough set analysis to the set of data samples are given and evaluated. In addition, the generated rules are also compared to the well-known IDS classifier algorithm. The study showed that the theory of rough sets seems to be a useful tool for inductive learning and a valuable aid for building expert systems.

This paper presents an automated retinal blood vessels segmentation
approach based on flower pollination search algorithm (FPSA). The flower pollination
search is a new algorithm based on the flower pollination process of flowering
plants. The FPSA searches for the optimal clustering of the given retinal
image into compact clusters under some constrains. Shape features are used to
further enhance the clustering results using local search method. The proposed
retinal blood vessels approach is tested on a publicly available databases DRIVE
a of retinal images. The results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed
approach is comparable with state of the art techniques in terms of accuracy, sensitivity
and specificity.