| Fuzzy and hard clustering analysis for thyroid disease. | |
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PMID: 23357404 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Thyroid hormones produced by the thyroid gland help regulation of the body's metabolism. A variety of methods have been proposed in the literature for thyroid disease classification. As far as we know, clustering techniques have not been used in thyroid diseases data set so far. This paper proposes a comparison between hard and fuzzy clustering algorithms for thyroid diseases data set in order to find the optimal number of clusters. Different scalar validity measures are used in comparing the performances of the proposed clustering systems. To demonstrate the performance of each algorithm, the feature values that represent thyroid disease are used as input for the system. Several runs are carried out and recorded with a different number of clusters being specified for each run (between 2 and 11), so as to establish the optimum number of clusters. To find the optimal number of clusters, the so-called elbow criterion is applied. The experimental results revealed that for all algorithms, the elbow was located at c=3. The clustering results for all algorithms are then visualized by the Sammon mapping method to find a low-dimensional (normally 2D or 3D) representation of a set of points distributed in a high dimensional pattern space. At the end of this study, some recommendations are formulated to improve determining the actual number of clusters present in the data set. |
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Authors:
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Ahmad Taher Azar; Shaimaa Ahmed El-Said; Aboul Ella Hassanien |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-25 |
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Title: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine Volume: - ISSN: 1872-7565 ISO Abbreviation: Comput Methods Programs Biomed Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-29 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8506513 Medline TA: Comput Methods Programs Biomed Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Faculty of Engineering, Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST), 6th of October City, Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Egypt. Electronic address: ahmad_t_azar@yahoo.com. |
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