Polat, KemalGuenes, Salih2020-03-262020-03-2620070266-47201468-0394https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0394.2007.00432.xhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/21210The artificial immune recognition system (AIRS) has been shown to be an efficient approach to tackling a variety of problems such as machine learning benchmark problems and medical classification problems. In this study, the resource allocation mechanism of AIRS was replaced with a new one based on fuzzy logic. The new system, named Fuzzy-AIRS, was used as a classifier in the classification of three well-known medical data sets, the Wisconsin breast cancer data set (WBCD), the Pima Indians diabetes data set and the ECG arrhythmia data set. The performance of the Fuzzy-AIRS algorithm was tested for classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity values, confusion matrix, computation time and receiver operating characteristic curves. Also, the AIRS and Fuzzy-AIRS algorithms were compared with respect to the amount of resources required in the execution of the algorithm. The highest classification accuracy obtained from applying the AIRS and Fuzzy-AIRS algorithms using 10-fold cross-validation was, respectively, 98.53% and 99.00% for classification of WBCD; 79.22% and 84.42% for classification of the Pima Indians diabetes data set; and 100% and 92.86% for classification of the ECG arrhythmia data set. Hence, these results show that Fuzzy-AIRS can be used as an effective classifier for medical problems.en10.1111/j.1468-0394.2007.00432.xinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessfuzzy resource allocationAIRSWisconsion breast cancer data setPima Indians diabetes data setECG arrhythmia data setROC curves10-fold cross-validationArticle244252270Q2WOS:000248961000004Q4