Algorithm for the Selection of Informative Symptoms in the Classification of Medical Data

Abstract

In this paper the issues like preprocessing of medical data, reclassification of the training sets and determining the importance of classes, formation of reference tables, selection of an informative features set that differentiate between class objects, formed by medical professionals are discussed and solved. Mainly in the most studied references [5-8, 11-13] the Fisher's criterion is used to obtain solutions to problems/tasks. Also for solving problems, the algorithms for an estimate calculation as well as the related software programs are used. For all cases, algorithms and software programs are suggested. The study consists of two important steps. The first step is to build a reference table, based on the importance of the features and objects as well as their contribution to the classes [1-4, 9, 10]; the second step is concerned with the choice of the most useful characteristic features set to be investigated. This corresponds to solving the issue of selection of set of informative features from a given table, their visualization, and the determination of the contribution of the features set to the formation of classes [1-13].