Medical Diagnosis Inference using Neural Network and Discriminant Analyses

Medical diagnosis systems have been developed to make the knowledge and expertise of human experts more widely available, therefore achieving high-quality diagnosis. In this study, in order to support the diagnosis by the medical diagnosis system, we have preformed medical diagnosis inference three times: first by a neural network with the backpropagation algorithm, secondly by a discriminant analysis with all of the variables, and thirdly by a discriminant analysis with the selected variables. A discussion on comparison of these three methods has been provided.