Effect of fuzzy partitioning in Crohn's disease classification: a neuro-fuzzy-based approach

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017-01

Authors

Sk. Saddam Ahmed (Author) Other; Nilanjan Dey (Author) Other; Amira S. Ashour (Author) Other; Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla (Author) Other; Dana Balas-Timar (Author) Other; Valentina E. Balas (Author) Other; João Manuel R. S. Tavares (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

Vol. 55 No. 1

Pages: 101-115

ISSN: 0140-0118

Publisher: Springer

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences

FOS: Medical and Health sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00K-DKZ

DOI: 10.1007/s11517-016-1508-7

Abstract (EN): Crohn's disease (CD) diagnosis is a tremendously serious health problem due to its ultimately effect on the gastrointestinal tract that leads to the need of complex medical assistance. In this study, the backpropagation neural network fuzzy classifier and a neuro-fuzzy model are combined for diagnosing the CD. Factor analysis is used for data dimension reduction. The effect on the system performance has been investigated when using fuzzy partitioning and dimension reduction. Additionally, further comparison is done between the different levels of the fuzzy partition to reach the optimal performance accuracy level. The performance evaluation of the proposed system is estimated using the classification accuracy and other metrics. The experimental results revealed that the classification with level-8 partitioning provides a classification accuracy of 97.67 %, with a sensitivity and specificity of 96.07 and 100 %, respectively.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 15