Applications of Rule Based Classification Techniques for Thoracic Surgery (original) (raw)

It has been aroused the necessity of extracting meaningful information from huge amount of available data that is accumulated as result of development in computer technology and database software. Traditional methods can’t cope with turning the data to the knowledge due to amount and complexity of accumulated data that has so many hidden patterns in it. Thus, nowadays the data mining techniques are commonly used for analyzing huge amount of information. Classification, clustering and associated rule extraction of data mining techniques are preferred widely. Classification is the operation of determining class of the data by forming a model that makes use of data whose categories are previously determined. Data mining techniques are frequently used to form a classifier that determines belonging class of a new data among the predetermined classes. Although these classification methods including different classification and rule extraction algorithms are generally successful they don’t...