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Manipulation of Male sexual dysfunction (or Impotence) that concerns 10% of the male population requires expertise and great experience. Different diagnostic approaches according to medical as well as to psychosocial and cultural characteristics of patients are usually followed. In this paper, a GA (genetic algorithm) driven intelligent system (GADIS) for diagnosis of male impotence is presented. The rule-base of GADIS has been constructed by using a genetic algorithm for rule extraction from a patients database. Experimental results show a very good diagnostic performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of the intelligent system. The rule-base can be refined each time the patient database is updated over a limit.
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Beligiannis, G., Hatzilygeroudis, I., Koutsojannis, C., Prentzas, J. (2006). A GA Driven Intelligent System for Medical Diagnosis. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11892960_116
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