The paper presents a new association rule-based data mining technique for classifying breast cancer, emphasizing early detection. It introduces a weighted classification approach that uses three core algorithms: Rule Generation, Rule Pruning, and Rule Prediction. The method identifies frequent itemsets, prunes rules into major and minor groups, and applies the pruned rules to classify test data, demonstrating feasibility and performance on several samples.
arXiv:2607. 19089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Breast cancer is one of the most widespread types of cancer, affecting approximately 8 million women worldwide.
arXiv:2609.13192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study compares traditional machine learning models and Large Language Model (LLM)-generated rule-based systems for heart disease prediction using...
arXiv:2607. 16250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estrogen Receptor (ER) status is a critical biomarker in breast cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment selection.
The paper introduces a four-step pipeline that mines decision rules in the latent space of an FT-Transformer and then translates those rules back into measurable clinical features. By treating embedding dimensions that separate patient groups as latent biomarkers, small decision trees are used to extract rules, which are then mapped to raw features using gradient-input saliency and CLS attention attribution. Across six public clinical datasets, the translated rules generally outperformed raw-feature rules, achieving significant AUROC gains, though some high-performing latent rules could not be fully captured by simple raw-feature conditions.
arXiv:2606. 14156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning systems based on IF-THEN rule representations readily offer interpretability, making them a crucial focus in contemporary AI research.
arXiv:2607. 15394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box models limit the adoption of artificial intelligence in medicine due to their lack of interpretability and reproducibility.
arXiv:2606. 02892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Breast cancer recurrence, a leading cause of long-term mortality among survivors, requires timely and accurate risk assessment to guide follow-up care and treatment planning.
arXiv:2607. 08299v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diagnostic decision making often relies on a sequence of pathology tests that bridge patient symptoms and final disease diagnosis.
The paper introduces a statistically grounded framework for interpretable, rule-based clinical classification using Bernoulli Naïve Bayes (BNB). It employs supervised chi‑square‑guided binarization to convert continuous medical variables into binary indicators, enabling BNB to handle continuous data while maintaining transparency. On three benchmark datasets—Pima Indians Diabetes, Wisconsin Breast Cancer, and Heart Failure Prediction—the method achieved AUCs of 0.800, 0.984, and 0.919, respectively, and demonstrated reliable probability calibration through cross‑validated analysis and post‑hoc beta calibration.
arXiv:2606. 16337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive modeling for clinical tabular data is central to clinical decision support and therefore requires not only strong predictive performance but also transparent decision logic.
The study evaluates several machine‑learning classifiers for predicting heart disease using two public datasets, each with 14 health‑related attributes. Performance metrics such as MAE, RAE, accuracy, precision, recall, and F‑measure were used, revealing that SVM performed best on the UCI data while Simple Cart excelled on the Kaggle data. The authors conclude that well‑tuned ML models can aid early heart‑disease diagnosis and suggest future work on hybrid methods and newer datasets.
arXiv:2607. 16941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a widespread hormone problem for women of childbearing age.