Interval type-2 fuzzy logic system for diagnosis coronary artery disease

Abstract

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a disease that has been the deadliest disease in Indonesia. The ratio of cardiologists over potential patients is not appropriate either. Intelligent system which can help doctors or patients for cheap and efficient diagnosing CAD is needed. Medical record data, acquisition of cardiologist knowledge and computing technology can be utilized for developing fuzzy logic based intelligent system. Type-1 fuzzy logic system (T1 FLS) has been widely used in various fields. T1 FS has limitation in representing and modelling uncertainty and minimize the impact. Whereas, type-2 fuzzy set (T2 FS) was also introduced as fuzzy set that can model uncertainty more sophisticated. T2 FLS does have a higher degree of freedom when modeling uncertainty but it is quite difficult to make the membership function. An interval T2 FS is a T2 FS in which the membership grade on third dimension is the same everywhere so it is simpler than T2 FS. This paper aims to clarify the better capability of IT2 FLS over T1 FLS on the development of CAD diagnosis system. Rules and membership function were formulated with the help of fuzzy c-means. This study illustrated the causes of CAD risk factors, fuzzification, type reduction and defuzzification. The resulted system was tested with percentage split method (50%-50%) to produce training data and testing data. This test is performed ten times with random seed to separate the data set. The resulted system generates an average of 73.78% accuracy, 71.94% sensitivity and 76.52% specificity.