An expert system design to diagnose cancer by using a new method reduced rule base.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A Medical Expert System (MES) was developed which uses Reduced Rule Base to diagnose cancer risk according to the symptoms in an individual. A total of 13 symptoms were used. With the new MES, the reduced rules are controlled instead of all possibilities (2= 8192 different possibilities occur). By controlling reduced rules, results are found more quickly. The method of two-level simplification of Boolean functions was used to obtain Reduced Rule Base. Thanks to the developed application with the number of dynamic inputs and outputs on different platforms, anyone can easily test their own cancer easily.

Authors

  • Fatih Başçiftçi
    Department of Computer Engineering, Technology Faculty, Selçuk University, Selçuklu, Konya 42003, Turkey. Electronic address: basciftci@selcuk.edu.tr.
  • Emre Avuçlu
    Department of Computer Technology and Computer Programming, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey. Electronic address: emreavuclu@aksaray.edu.tr.