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In the late eighties of the twentieth century I encountered a paper referring to mathematics dealing with imprecision applied to medical diagnosis. I was working in the area of medical statistics at that time, and obviously I was interested in the contents of the paper. After I had read it I became fascinated by new possibilities of medical data interpretation and processing proposed by the author. The new world of fuzziness, originated by Professor Lotfi Zadeh, seemed to open up to me and I started reading all accessible material about fuzzy set theory.
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Rakus-Andersson, E. (2007). Introduction. In: Fuzzy and Rough Techniques in Medical Diagnosis and Medication. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 212. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49708-0_1
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