Medical Diagnosis Based on Distance Measures Between Picture Fuzzy Sets

Abstract

This article describes how most frequently uncertainty arises due to vagueness, imprecision, partial information, etc., are encountered in medical diagnosis. To deal with this type of uncertainty, initially fuzzy set theory (FST) was explored and accordingly, medical decision making became one of the most important and interesting areas of applications of FST. Interval valued fuzzy sets (IVFSs) and intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS's) were developed and successfully applied in different areas including medical diagnosis. Although, IFS forms a membership degree and a non-membership degree separately in such a way that sum of the two degrees must not exceed one, but one of the important and integral part i.e., degree of neutrality is not taken into consideration in IFS, which is generally occurred in medical diagnosis. In such circumstances, picture fuzzy set (PFS) can be considered as a strong mathematical tool, which adequate in situations when human opinions involved more answers of type: yes, abstain, no. For this purpose, this article, proposes some distance measures on PFS and studies some of its properties. Also, an attempt has been made to carry out medical diagnosis via the proposed distance measures on PFSs and exhibit the technique with a suitable case study. It is found that the distance measures make it possible to introduce weights of all symptoms and consequently patient can be diagnosed directly.