dermatology

OpenML dataset with id 35

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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/35/dermatology.arff

Upload date: 6 April 2014

Dataset Characteristics

Number of classes: 6
Number of features: 35 (numeric: 1, symbolic: 34 and in total binary: 1 )
Number of instances: 366
Number of instances with missing values: 8
Number of missing values: 8

Description

1. Title: Dermatology Database

2. Source Information:

  (a) Original owners:
      -- 1. Nilsel Ilter, M.D., Ph.D., 
            Gazi University, 
            School of Medicine
            06510 Ankara, Turkey
            Phone: +90 (312) 214 1080

      -- 2. H. Altay Guvenir, PhD., 
            Bilkent University,
            Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science,
            06533 Ankara, Turkey
            Phone: +90 (312) 266 4133
            Email: guvenir@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

  (b) Donor: H. Altay Guvenir,
             Bilkent University,
             Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science,
             06533 Ankara, Turkey
             Phone: +90 (312) 266 4133
             Email: guvenir@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

  (c) Date:  January, 1998

3. Past Usage:

  1. G. Demiroz, H. A. Govenir, and N. Ilter, 
     "Learning Differential Diagnosis of Eryhemato-Squamous Diseases using
      Voting Feature Intervals", Aritificial Intelligence in Medicine,

     The aim is to determine the type of Eryhemato-Squamous Disease.

4. Relevant Information:

    This database contains 34 attributes, 33 of which are linear
    valued and one of them is nominal.

    The differential diagnosis of erythemato-squamous diseases is a real
    problem in dermatology. They all share the clinical features of
    erythema and scaling, with very little differences. The diseases in
    this group are psoriasis, seboreic dermatitis, lichen planus, 
    pityriasis rosea, cronic dermatitis, and pityriasis rubra pilaris.
    Usually a biopsy is necessary for the diagnosis but unfortunately
    these diseases share many histopathological features as
    well. Another difficulty for the differential diagnosis is that a
    disease may show the features of another disease at the beginning
    stage and may have the characteristic features at the following stages. 
    Patients were first evaluated clinically with 12 features.
    Afterwards, skin samples were taken for the evaluation of 22
    histopathological features. The values of the histopathological features
    are determined by an analysis of the samples under a microscope.

    In the dataset constructed for this domain, the family history feature
    has the value 1 if any of these diseases has been observed in the
    family, and 0 otherwise. The age feature simply represents the age of
    the patient. Every other feature (clinical and histopathological) was
    given a degree in the range of 0 to 3. Here, 0 indicates that the
    feature was not present, 3 indicates the largest amount possible,
    and 1, 2 indicate the relative intermediate values.

    The names and id numbers of the patients were recently 
    removed from the database.

5. Number of Instances: 366

6. Number of Attributes: 34

7. Attribute Information:

  -- Complete attribute documentation:
     Clinical Attributes: (take values 0, 1, 2, 3, unless otherwise indicated)
     1: erythema
     2: scaling
     3: definite borders
     4: itching
     5: koebner phenomenon
     6: polygonal papules
     7: follicular papules
     8: oral mucosal involvement
     9: knee and elbow involvement
    10: scalp involvement
    11: family history, (0 or 1)
    34: Age (linear)

    Histopathological Attributes: (take values 0, 1, 2, 3)
    12: melanin incontinence
    13: eosinophils in the infiltrate
    14: PNL infiltrate
    15: fibrosis of the papillary dermis
    16: exocytosis
    17: acanthosis
    18: hyperkeratosis
    19: parakeratosis
    20: clubbing of the rete ridges
    21: elongation of the rete ridges
    22: thinning of the suprapapillary epidermis
    23: spongiform pustule
    24: munro microabcess
    25: focal hypergranulosis
    26: disappearance of the granular layer
    27: vacuolisation and damage of basal layer
    28: spongiosis
    29: saw-tooth appearance of retes
    30: follicular horn plug
    31: perifollicular parakeratosis
    32: inflammatory monoluclear inflitrate
    33: band-like infiltrate

8. Missing Attribute Values: 8 (in Age attribute). Distinguished with '?'.

9. Class Distribution:

      Database:  Dermatology
      
      Class code:   Class:                  Number of instances:
      1             psoriasis			    112
      2             seboreic dermatitis             61
      3             lichen planus                   72
      4             pityriasis rosea                49
      5             cronic dermatitis               52    
      6             pityriasis rubra pilaris        20