• DocumentCode
    1978354
  • Title

    How the number of measured dimensions affects fuzzy causal measures of vitamin therapy for hyperhomocysteinemia in stroke patients

  • Author

    Helgason, Cathy M. ; Jobe, Thomas H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Neurology, Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    24-26 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    218
  • Lastpage
    221
  • Abstract
    As a natural sequel to our investigations in the application of the fuzzy model to clinical stroke diagnosis and treatment, we have developed direct measures of causality sensitive to initial conditions of the individual patient with stroke and are based on the fuzzy measure M of cardinality and the fuzzy subsethood theorem defined Kosko. In this paper we show and measure the effect of a previously un-represented element (dimension) on our causal clinical efficiency measure K sensitive to unique initial and final conditions. We show this by adding the new element to the patient as fuzzy set. Again, our causal measures are based on the same measure of fuzzy cardinality M and the fuzzy subsethood theorem. The definition of causal measures for Formal Causal Ground (FCG), Clinical Causal Effect (CCE) and K can be found. Two separate measures for K are calculated. The clinical efficiency of Foltx when the genetic mutation is included as information in the patient fuzzy set, and when it is not. The effect of the addition of elemental information as variable in the patient´s fuzzy set is discussed.
  • Keywords
    biomedical measurement; fuzzy set theory; patient care; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; CCE; FCG; causal clinical efficiency; clinical causal effect; clinical stroke diagonosis; clinical stroke treatment; formal causal ground; fuzzy cardinality; fuzzy causal measures; fuzzy subsethood theorem; genetic mutation; hyperhomocysteinemia; patients fuzzy set; patients stroke treatment; vitamin therapy; Educational institutions; Hypercubes; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Nervous system; Plasma measurements; Postal services; Probability; Psychiatry; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2003. NAFIPS 2003. 22nd International Conference of the North American
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7918-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NAFIPS.2003.1226785
  • Filename
    1226785