英文摘要 |
The Department of Health recently published data indicating that stroke (Cerebral Vascular Accident, CVA) ranked third among the main causes of death in Taiwan with a mortality rate of 9.23 per 100,000 in 2004. It is also the main cause of disability among the elderly since varying degrees of neural sequela usually remain, leaving a lasting impact on the individuals, family and society. Though the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has established a stroke diagnosis standard supported by the TCM dialectical system, very few studies were able to establish referential relationships between these standards and those used by modern medicine. In this research, we have analyzed the relationship between diagnostic indices used in TCM and modern medicine and apply the C4.5 decision tree classifier (algorithm) and Bayesian classifier to extract rules used in stroke diagnoses. Furthermore, we look into the proportion of fire syndrome to non-fire syndrome in the training set to determine the misclassification cost that may influence the performance of the classifier. Our analysis shows that when the number of fire syndrome is proportioned to the number of non-fire syndrome in the training set, the classifier has better results. And when we combine the class distribution and misclassification cost, the classifier may improve sensitivity without reducing its specificity. |