Neuronal Communication Genetic Algorithm-Based Inductive Learning

The development of powerful learning strategies in the medical domain constitutes a real challenge. Machine learning algorithms are used to extract high-level knowledge from medical datasets. Rule-based machine learning algorithms are easily interpreted by humans. To build a robust rule-based algorithm, a new hybrid metaheuristic was proposed for the classification of medical datasets. The hybrid approach uses neural communication and genetic algorithm-based inductive learning to build a robust model for disease prediction. The resulting classification models are characterized by good predictive accuracy and relatively small size. The results on 16 well-known medical datasets from the UCI machine learning repository shows the efficiency of the proposed approach compared to other states-of-the-art approaches.