Electroshock effects identification using classification based on rules

Abstract

This article focuses on results obtained from a hierarchical classification applied to a repeated short time series data in a medical ill-structured domain. The analyzed information is relative to patients –with major depressive disorders or schizophrenia– under ECT treatment; as a consequence, this information contains data corresponding to measures taken at different time, throughout a 24-hour period after an electroshock application to the patient. …