An analysis of peculiarity oriented interestingness measures on medical data

Date

2008

Author

Aldaş, Cem Nuri

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Peculiar data are regarded as patterns which are significantly distinguishable from other records, relatively few in number and they are accepted as to be one of the most striking aspects of the interestingness concept. In clinical domain, peculiar records are probably signals for malignancy or disorder to be intervened immediately. The investigation of the rules and mechanisms which lie behind these records will be a meaningful contribution for improved clinical decision support systems. In order to discover the most interesting records and patterns, many peculiarity oriented interestingness measures, each fulfilling a specific requirement, have been developed. In this thesis well-known peculiarity oriented interestingness measures, Local Outlier Factor (LOF), Cluster Based Local Outlier Factor (CBLOF) and Record Peculiar Factor (RPF) are compared. The insights derived from the theoretical infrastructures of the algorithms were evaluated by using experiments on synthetic and real world medical data. The results are discussed based on the interestingness perspective and some departure points for building a more developed methodology for knowledge discovery in databases are proposed.

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Medical Informatics., Electronic computers.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609856/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18212

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Graduate School of Informatics, Theses