Medical images data mining using classification algorithm based on association rule
Weiwei Deng, Yanxin Lu · Int J Med Parasit Dis · 2012
Objective In order to assist clinicians in diagnosis and treatment of brain disease,a classifier for medical images which contains tumora inside,based on association rule data mining techniques was constructed.Methtoods After a pre-processing phase of the medical images,the related features from those images were extracted and discretized as the input of association rule,then the medical images classifier was constructed by improved Apriori algorithm.Results The medical images classifier was constructed.The known type of medical images was utilized to train the classifier so as to mine the association rules that satisfy the constraint conditions.Then the brain tumor in an unknown type of medical image was classified by the classifier constructed.Conclusion Classification algorithm based on association rule can be effectively used in mining image features,and constructing an image classifier to identify benign or malignant tumors. Key words: Data mining; Classification algorithm based on association rule; Medical images