Abstract
There are several data based methods in the field of
artificial intelligence which are nowadays frequently
used for analysing classification problems in the
context of medical applications. As we show in this
paper, the application of enhanced evolutionary
computation techniques to classification problems has
the potential to evolve classifiers of even higher
quality than those trained by standard machine learning
methods. On the basis of three medical benchmark
classification problems, namely the Wisconsin and the
Thyroid data sets taken from the UCI repository as well
as the Melanoma data set prepared by members of the
Department of Dermatology of the Medical University
Vienna, we document that the enhanced genetic
programming based approach presented here is able to
produce better results than linear modelling methods,
artificial neural networks, kNN classification and also
standard genetic programming approaches.
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