Title
Identifying β-thalassemia carriers using a data mining approach: The case of the Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Abstract
•We propose an automatic detection model of beta-thalassemia carriers based on a hybrid data mining approach.•A novel and real dataset from Gaza Strip is introduced and studied.•The highly imbalanced distribution in the dataset is solved by SMOTE oversampling.•The proposed model will support medical decisions by identifying beta-thalassemia carriers especially in countries with limited recourses or poor health services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.artmed.2018.04.009
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Thalassemia,Data mining,Classification,SMOTE,Oversampling,Imbalance,Medical dataset
Thalassemia,Data mining,Decision tree,Naive Bayes classifier,Oversampling,Computer science,Multilayer perceptron,Classifier (linguistics),Artificial neural network,Beta thalassemia
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
88
0933-3657
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
20
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alaa S. AlAgha110.36
Hossam Faris276138.48
Bassam Hammo3556.46
Ala' M. Al-Zoubi42219.83