Contribution to the Association Rules Visualization for Decision Support: A Combined Use Between Boolean Modeling and the Colored 2D Matrix

In the present paper we aim to study the visual decision support based on Cellular machine CASI (Cellular Automata for Symbolic Induction). The purpose is to improve the visualization of large sets of association rules, in order to perform Clinical decision support system and decrease doctors’ cognitive charge. One of the major problems in processing association rules is the exponential growth of generated rules volume which impacts doctor’s adaptation. In order to clarify it, many approaches meant to represent this set of association rules under visual context have been suggested. In this article we suggest to use jointly the CASI cellular machine and the colored 2D matrices to improve the visualization of association rules. Our approach has been divided into four important phases: (1) Data preparation, (2) Extracting association rules, (3) Boolean modeling of the rules base (4) 2D visualization colored by Boolean inferences

Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Support in Medicine

Information technology plays an important role in medicine because of the advanced decision support systems (DSS) it can provide. We provide an overview of the building blocks necessary for a medical decision support system and introduce seven research articles in this special issue that describe the development and evaluation of individual medical DSS building blocks or complete medical DSS