Mining for Knowledge to Build Decision Support System for Treatment of Plano-Valgus

Abstract:

Most children with plano-valgus have flexible arches. There is a lot of controversy regarding the results of treatment with foot orthosis, corrective exercises, etc. We hypothesized that data mining and action rule discovery help to understand the relationships among the treatment factors and measurements in order to better understand plano-valgus treatment and gain new knowledge for predicting treatment success. Sixty eligible plano-valgus children and 50 age-matched control children were recruited for this study. The authors developed a flexible temporal feature retrieval system based on grouping the patients of similar visiting frequencies with connection to an action-rules engine, which consists of four modules: a data grouping device, a temporal feature extraction engine, a decision tree classification device, and an action rules generation device.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 199)
• Pages: 49-54
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.199.49
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Agnieszka Dardzińska-Głębocka, Jolanta Pauk
• Keywords: Action Rules, Data Mining (DM), Information System, Knowledge Discovery, Plano-Valgus

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