Fuzzy DEA-based classifier and its applications in healthcare management.

Journal: Health care management science
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Abstract

Nonlinear fuzzy classification models have better classification performance than linear fuzzy classifiers. In many nonlinear fuzzy classification problems, piecewise-linear fuzzy discriminant functions can approximate nonlinear fuzzy discriminant functions. In this paper, we first build fuzzy classifier based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for incremental separable fuzzy training data, which can be widely applied in the healthcare management with fuzzy attributes, then we apply the proposed fuzzy DEA-based classifier in the diagnosis of Coronary with fuzzy symptoms and the classification of breast cancer dataset with fuzzy disturbance. Numerical experiments show the proposed fuzzy DEA-based classifier is accurate and robust.

Authors

  • Ai-Bing Ji
    College of Public Health, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Hebei University, Baoding, 071000, Hebei, People's Republic of China.
  • Yanhua Qiao
    College of Public Health, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Hebei University, Baoding, 071000, Hebei, People's Republic of China. jab@hbu.edu.cn.
  • Chang Liu
    Key Lab of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.