The Fuzzy Logic Approaches to Medical Diagnosis

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 3320

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Computer Engineering Department, Near East University, Mersin 10, 99138 Nicosia, Turkey
Interests: soft computing; control systems; digital signal processing

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Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays fuzzy logic is widely used in solving more difficult problems in engineering, medicine, and economics. Medical diagnosis is one of the important and complex areas where fuzzy logic systems are extensively used. Medical diagnosis is made to identify diseases as the most likely cause of a person's symptoms and also to determine the nature of these diseases. The symptoms of some diseases are often uncertain and vague. The incomplete patient data and vague nature of diseases cause uncertainty.  In these conditions, the accurate diagnosis of diseases and the solutions to some diagnostic problems become complicated. Fuzzy logic is one of the viable approaches for the development of knowledge-based systems and to deal with uncertainty in medical diagnosis. Therefore, it is needed to consider the latest trends in the development of fuzzy logic systems. The fuzzy logic-based systems can handle uncertainties and complexity of the problem and improve the performance of the diagnostic systems.

The goal of this Special Issue is to review the research articles describing the theoretical and practical achievements in medical diagnosis.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Medical Applications of Fuzzy Systems
  • Type-2 Fuzzy Systems for medical diagnosis
  • Z-number Based Fuzzy Systems
  • Intuitionistic fuzzy logic for medical diagnosis
  • Medical Fuzzy Expert Systems
  • Evolutionary-fuzzy systems
  • Neuro-fuzzy systems
  • Hybrid AI systems for medical diagnosis
  • Fuzzy-genetic systems
  • Fuzzy Decision Making
  • Computer-assisted diagnosis
  • Clinical decision support system
  • Data Mining and Fuzzy Logic
  • Medical Imaging and Fuzzy Logic
  • Medical informatics
  • Health information technology
  • Biomedical image analysis
  • Tumor segmentation
  • Radiomics

Prof. Dr. Rahib H. Abiyev
Guest Editor

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Fetal Health State Detection Using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Networks
by Rahib Abiyev, John Bush Idoko, Hamit Altıparmak and Murat Tüzünkan
Diagnostics 2023, 13(10), 1690; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13101690 - 10 May 2023
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Diagnosis of fetal health is a difficult process that depends on various input factors. Depending on the values or the interval of values of these input symptoms, the detection of fetal health status is implemented. Sometimes it is difficult to determine the exact [...] Read more.
Diagnosis of fetal health is a difficult process that depends on various input factors. Depending on the values or the interval of values of these input symptoms, the detection of fetal health status is implemented. Sometimes it is difficult to determine the exact values of the intervals for diagnosing the diseases and there may always be disagreement between the expert doctors. As a result, the diagnosis of diseases is often carried out in uncertain conditions and can sometimes cause undesirable errors. Therefore, the vague nature of diseases and incomplete patient data can lead to uncertain decisions. One of the effective approaches to solve such kind of problem is the use of fuzzy logic in the construction of the diagnostic system. This paper proposes a type-2 fuzzy neural system (T2-FNN) for the detection of fetal health status. The structure and design algorithms of the T2-FNN system are presented. Cardiotocography, which provides information about the fetal heart rate and uterine contractions, is employed for monitoring fetal status. Using measured statistical data, the design of the system is implemented. Comparisons of various models are presented to prove the effectiveness of the proposed system. The system can be utilized in clinical information systems to obtain valuable information about fetal health status. Full article
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A Hybridized Machine Learning Approach for Predicting COVID-19 Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System and Reptile Search Algorithm
by Thandra Jithendra and Shaik Sharief Basha
Diagnostics 2023, 13(9), 1641; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13091641 - 06 May 2023
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This research is aimed to escalate Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) functioning in order to ensure the veracity of existing time-series modeling. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global threat for the past three years. Therefore, advanced forecasting of confirmed infection cases is [...] Read more.
This research is aimed to escalate Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) functioning in order to ensure the veracity of existing time-series modeling. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global threat for the past three years. Therefore, advanced forecasting of confirmed infection cases is extremely essential to alleviate the crisis brought out by COVID-19. An adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system-reptile search algorithm (ANFIS-RSA) is developed to effectively anticipate COVID-19 cases. The proposed model integrates a machine-learning model (ANFIS) with a nature-inspired Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA). The RSA technique is used to modulate the parameters in order to improve the ANFIS modeling. Since the performance of the ANFIS model is dependent on optimizing parameters, the statistics of infected cases in China and India were employed through data obtained from WHO reports. To ensure the accuracy of our estimations, corresponding error indicators such as RMSE, RMSRE, MAE, and MAPE were evaluated using the coefficient of determination (R2). The recommended approach employed on the China dataset was compared with other upgraded ANFIS methods to identify the best error metrics, resulting in an R2 value of 0.9775. ANFIS-CEBAS and Flower Pollination Algorithm and Salp Swarm Algorithm (FPASSA-ANFIS) attained values of 0.9645 and 0.9763, respectively. Furthermore, the ANFIS-RSA technique was used on the India dataset to examine its efficiency and acquired the best R2 value (0.98). Consequently, the suggested technique was found to be more beneficial for high-precision forecasting of COVID-19 on time-series data. Full article
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