ANN for Diagnosing Hepatitis Virus

Abstract: This paper presents an artificial neural network based approach for the diagnosis of hepatitis virus. A number of factors that may possibly influence the performance of patients were outlined. Such factors as age, sex, Steroid, Antivirals, Fatigue, Malaise, Anorexia, Liver Big, Liver Firm Splean Palpable, Spiders, Ascites, Varices, Bilirubin, Alk Phosphate, SGOT, Albumin, Protine and Histology, were then used as input variables for the ANN model . Test data evaluation shows that the ANN model is able to correctly predict the diagnosis of more than 93% of prospective Patients

NeuroSVM: A Graphical User Interface for Identification of Liver Patients

Diagnosis of liver infection at preliminary stage is important for better treatment. In todays scenario devices like sensors are used for detection of infections. Accurate classification techniques are required for automatic identification of disease samples. In this context, this study utilizes data mining approaches for classification of liver patients from healthy individuals. Four algorithms (Naive Bayes, Bagging, Random forest and SVM) were implemented for classification using R platform. Further to improve the accuracy of classification a hybrid NeuroSVM model was developed using SVM and feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN). The hybrid model was tested for its performance using statistical parameters like root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The model resulted in a prediction accuracy of 98.83%. The results suggested that development of hybrid model improved the accuracy of prediction. To serve the medicinal community for prediction of liver disease among patients, a graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed using R. The GUI is deployed as a package in local repository of R platform for users to perform prediction.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure

Liver Disease Recognition: A Discrete Hidden Markov Model Approach

The liver alongside the heart and the brain is the largest and the most vital organ within the human body whose absence leads to certain death. In addition, diagnosis of liver diseases takes a long time and requires sufficient expertise of physicians. To this end, statistical methods as automatic prediction systems can help specialists to diagnose liver diseases quickly and accurately. The Discrete Hidden Markov Model (DHMM) is an intelligent and a strong statistical model used to predict the types of liver diseases in patients in this study. The data in this crosssectional study included information elicited from the records of 1143 patients with 5 different types of liver diseases including cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, and fatty liver disease admitted to Afzalipour Hospital in the city of Kerman in the time period of 2006-2013. At first, the type of diseases for each patient was identified; however, it was assumed that the type of diseases is unknown and there were attempts to diagnose the type of the disease through the DHMM to examine its accuracy. Therefore, the DHMM was fitted to the data and its performance was evaluated by using the parameters of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. Such parameters of the model were separately calculated for the diagnosis of liver diseases. The highest levels of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were associated with the diagnosis of cirrhosis of the liver and equal to 0.77, 0.82, 0.96, respectively; and the lowest levels were related to the diagnosis of fatty liver disease with an accuracy level of 0.65 and a sensitivity level of 0.69. As well, the specificity level in the diagnosis of fatty liver disease was 0.94. The results of this study indicated the potential ability of the DHMM; thus, the use of this model in terms of diagnosing liver diseases was strongly recommended

Optimizing multi-dimensional terahertz imaging analysis for colon cancer diagnosis

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Medical imaging analysis with artificial neural networks

Given that neural networks have been widely reported in the research community of medical imaging, we provide a focused literature survey on recent neural network developments in computer-aided diagnosis, medical image segmentation and edge detection towards visual content analysis, and medical image registration for its pre-processing and post-processing, with the aims of increasing awareness of how neural networks can be applied to these areas and to provide a foundation for further research and practical development. Representative techniques and algorithms are explained in detail to provide inspiring examples illustrating: (i) how a known neural network with fixed structure and training procedure could be applied to resolve a medical imaging problem; (ii) how medical images could be analysed, processed, and characterised by neural networks; and (iii) how neural networks could be expanded further to resolve problems relevant to medical imaging. In the concluding section, a highlight of comparisons among many neural network applications is included to provide a global view on computational intelligence with neural networks in medical imaging

Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease by NIRF Spectroscopy\ud and Nuclear Medicine\ud

Novel approaches to Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease by NIRF Spectroscopy and Nuclear Medicine are presented and related cognitive, as well as molecular and cellular, models are critically evaluated.\u