%0 Conference Paper %1 bojarczuk03 %A Bojarczuk, Celia C. %A Lopes, Heitor S. %A Freitas, Alex A. %B Genetic Programming, Proceedings of EuroGP'2003 %C Essex %D 2003 %E Ryan, Conor %E Soule, Terence %E Keijzer, Maarten %E Tsang, Edward %E Poli, Riccardo %E Costa, Ernesto %I Springer-Verlag %K algorithms, applications classification, data genetic medical mining, programming, %P 11--21 %T An innovative application of a constrained-syntax genetic programming system to the problem of predicting survival of patients %U http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=2610&spage=11 %V 2610 %X This paper proposes a constrained-syntax genetic programming (GP) algorithm for discovering classification rules in medical data sets. The proposed GP contains several syntactic constraints to be enforced by the system using a disjunctive normal form representation, so that individuals represent valid rule sets that are easy to interpret. The GP is compared with C4.5 in a real-world medical data set. This data set represents a difficult classification problem, and a new preprocessing method was devised for mining the data %@ 3-540-00971-X

@inproceedings{bojarczuk03, abstract = {This paper proposes a constrained-syntax genetic programming (GP) algorithm for discovering classification rules in medical data sets. The proposed GP contains several syntactic constraints to be enforced by the system using a disjunctive normal form representation, so that individuals represent valid rule sets that are easy to interpret. The GP is compared with C4.5 in a real-world medical data set. This data set represents a difficult classification problem, and a new preprocessing method was devised for mining the data}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {Essex}, author = {Bojarczuk, Celia C. and Lopes, Heitor S. and Freitas, Alex A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/295c5a792d68b5c42b71007cfbbca1cc1/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Genetic Programming, Proceedings of EuroGP'2003}, editor = {Ryan, Conor and Soule, Terence and Keijzer, Maarten and Tsang, Edward and Poli, Riccardo and Costa, Ernesto}, interhash = {c74e526b54e3336875e1a9db73b5c059}, intrahash = {95c5a792d68b5c42b71007cfbbca1cc1}, isbn = {3-540-00971-X}, keywords = {algorithms, applications classification, data genetic medical mining, programming,}, month = {14-16 April}, notes = {EuroGP'2003 held in conjunction with EvoWorkshops 2003}, organisation = {EvoNet}, pages = {11--21}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, publisher_address = {Berlin}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:36:44.000+0200}, title = {An innovative application of a constrained-syntax genetic programming system to the problem of predicting survival of patients}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=2610&spage=11}, volume = 2610, year = 2003 }