An approach in medical diagnosis based on Z-numbers soft set

Abstract

Background In the process of medical diagnosis, a large amount of uncertain and inconsistent information is inevitably involved. There have been many fruitful results were investigated for medical diagnosis by utilizing different traditional uncertainty mathematical tools. It is found that there is limited study on measuring reliability of the information involved are rare, moreover, the existed methods cannot give the measuring reliability of every judgment to all symptoms in details. Objectives It is quite essential to recognize the impact on the reliability of the fuzzy information provided under inadequate experience, lack of knowledge and so on. In this paper, the notion of the Z-numbers soft set is proposed to handle the reliability of every judgment to all symptoms in details. The study in this paper is an interdisciplinary approach towards rapid and efficient medical diagnosis. Methods An approach based on Z-numbers soft set (ZnSS)to medical diagnosis has been developed and is used to estimate whether two patterns or images are identical or approximately. The notion of Z-numbers soft set is proposed by combing the theory of soft set and Z-numbers theory. The basic properties of subset, equal, intersection, union and complement operations on the Z-numbers soft sets are defined and the similarity measure of two Z-numbers soft sets are also discussed in this paper. Results An illustrative example similar to existing studies is showed to verify the effectiveness and feasibility, which can highlight the proposed method and demonstrate the solution characteristics. Conclusion Diagnosing diseases by uncertainty symptoms is not a direct and simple task at all. The approach based on ZnSS presented in this paper can not only measure reliability of the information involved, but also give the measuring reliability of every judgment to all symptoms in details.