Title: Exploring the risk factors of top five malignancies in Bangladesh

Authors: S.A.M.F. Rubby; Sheefta Naz; A.M. Arefin Khaled; Ruhul Amin Dicken; Rashedur M. Rahman

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot-15, Block-B, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot-15, Block-B, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot-15, Block-B, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot-15, Block-B, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot-15, Block-B, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh

Abstract: The number of cancer patients has been increased to a great extent over last few years in Bangladesh. National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) has confirmed more than 27,000 cancer patients from year 2008-2010. However, the number of researches on cancer patients are limited in the context of Bangladesh. This research aims to explore the key factors that have relationship with cancer. The factors include different demographic and occupational information as well smoking habits of patients. We have generated two adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) models, one for female and one for male patients of Bangladesh and reported the relationships of different factors with five top malignancies reported in NIRCH data set.

Keywords: adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system; ANFIS; fuzzy inference system; FIS; malignancies; ICD-O; cancer; Bangladesh.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKESDP.2017.089523

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms, 2017 Vol.6 No.1, pp.62 - 81

Accepted: 15 Sep 2017
Published online: 29 Jan 2018 *