Cuckoo search optimized reduction and fuzzy logic classifier for heart disease and diabetes prediction

Disease forecasting using soft computing techniques is major area of research in data mining in recent years. To classify heart and diabetes diseases, this paper proposes a diagnosis system using cuckoo search optimized rough sets based attribute reduction and fuzzy logic system. The disease prediction is done as per the following steps 1) feature reduction using cuckoo search with rough set theory 2) Disease prediction using fuzzy logic system. The first step reduces the computational burden and enhances performance of fuzzy logic system. Second step is based on the fuzzy rules and membership functions which classifies the disease datasets. The authors have tested this approach on Cleveland, Hungarian, Switzerland heart disease data sets and a real-time diabetes dataset. The experimentation result demonstrates that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing approaches. Copyright © 2017, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited.