Title: Case-based reasoning and data mining integrated method for the diagnosis of some neuromuscular disease

Authors: Babita Pandey, R.B. Mishra

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, IT, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Vatranasi-221005, UP, India. ' Department of Computer Engineering, IT, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Vatranasi-221005, UP, India

Abstract: Case-based reasoning (CBR) method has been deployed in the diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases (NMD) based upon EMG signals and also data mining (DM) methods have been used for the same purpose. Mostly EMG-based parameters and certain non-signal parameters have been considered for the same. We have performed an integrated CBR and DM method for the diagnosis of EMG-based NM diseases. We have taken psychological and cognitive parameters apart from the EMG-based parameters. Computation cost is taken as the metric to evaluate the performance of CBR and CBR-DM integrated model. There is a saving of computation cost, speed and storage in the integrated model.

Keywords: case-based reasoning; CBR; data mining; neuromuscular diseases; computation cost; EMG; electromyography; medical diagnosis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2011.039072

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2011 Vol.3 No.1, pp.1 - 15

Published online: 28 Feb 2015 *

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