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Although Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common single-gene lethal disorder, is caused by a homogeneous biochemical defect in all patients, substantial patient-patient variety in disease progression is observed. The loss of ambulation (LoA) is a functional milestone of DMD progression and the age at LoA is often used as an indication of disease severity. But as age at LoA is not always...
This paper presents an efficient Parkinson disease diagnosis system using Least Squares Twin Support Vector Machine (LSTSVM) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). LSTSVM is a promising binary classifier and has shown better generalization ability and faster computational speed. PSO is used for feature selection and parameter optimization. Parkinson disease dataset is taken from UCI repository. The...
Radiologists are known to suffer from fatigue and drop in diagnostic accuracy due to large number of slices to read and long working hours. A computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system could help lighten the workload. Segmentation is the first step in a CAD system. This study aims to propose an accurate automatic segmentation. This study deals with High Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) scans of the...
Nowadays, many people suffer from heart problems and hence the demand of inexpensive and efficient electrocardiogram (ECG) for frequent heart monitoring is becoming crucial. To make the ECG device portable, cost-effective and light-weight, an alternative of deploying an ECG system is on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It is also important to choose suitable algorithm that optimize in terms of...
This paper presents a study on the image processing techniques used to identify and classify fungal disease symptoms affected on different agriculture/horticulture crops. Many diseases exhibit general symptoms that are be caused by different pathogens produced by leaves, roots etc. Images Often do not possess sufficient details to assist in diagnosis, resulting in waste of time, misshaping the diagnostician...
Along with rapid technological advancements, the need for developing suitable frameworks for protecting privacy of individuals becomes essential for the wide-spread acceptance of knowledge-based applications. Privacy Preserving Data Mining has become an active area of research recently to address privacy issues whenever the data is to be provided for a variety of purposes like survey, research etc...
Data mining technique in the history of medical data found with enormous investigations found that the prediction of heart disease is very important in medical science. In medical history it is observed that the unstructured data as heterogeneous data and it is observed that the data formed with different attributes should be analyzed to predict and provide information for making diagnosis of a heart...
The advance of high throughput biotechnology enables the generation of large amount of biomedical data. The microarray is increasingly a popular approach for the detection of genome-wide gene expression. Microarray data have thus increased significantly in public accessible database repositories, which provide valuable big data for scientific research. To deal with the challenge of microarray big...
In agriculture, the major cause of loss of yield and quality of harvest is due to the outbreak of pest and diseases. It is difficult for fewer experts to visit a large number of farms to analyze the pest and diseases and to provide alerts to other farmers in the same region. Therefore, remote classification of pest and diseases is essential to advise on appropriate corrective actions to the farmers...
Databases in clinical scenario have tremendous amount of data regarding patients and clinical history associated. Here, data mining plays vital role in searching for patterns within huge clinical data that could provide useful basis of knowledge for efficient and effective decision-making. Classification mechanism is widely used tool of data mining employed in healthcare applications to facilitate...
Data mining concepts have been extensively used for disease prediction in the medical field. Many Hybrid Prediction Models (HPM) have been proposed and implemented in this area, however, there is always a need for increasing accuracy and efficiency. The existing methods take into account all the features to build the classifier model thus reducing the accuracy and increasing the overall processing...
Asthma is a lung disease caused by the inflammation and narrowing of the airways that causes recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing, and often can be life-threatening. Around 15–20 million people are suffering from asthma in India[1]. This paper aims at analyzing various data mining techniques for the prediction of asthma. The observations show that the fusion approach of naive bayes and...
Many governments and institutions have guidelines for health-enhancing physical activity. Additionally, according to recent studies, the amount of time spent on sitting is a highly important determinant of health and wellbeing. In fact, sedentary lifestyle can lead to many diseases and, what is more, it is even found to be associated with increased mortality.
Conventional techniques for clinical decision support systems are based on a single classifier or simple combination of these classifiers used for disease diagnosis and prediction. Recently much attention has been paid on improving the performance of disease prediction by using ensemble-based methods. In this paper, we use multiple ensemble classification techniques for diabetes datasets. Three types...
There are many examples in the literature of scorecards derived from clinical data. These scorecards are proposed for use by health professionals to stratify patients into risk categories and are often compared using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and their associated areas (AUC). This paper analyses random scorecards and shows that the underlying distributions and therefore statistical...
Recent advances in genotyping technology have facilitated the use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to successfully identify genetic variants that are associated with common complex traits. Following the successes in identification of single variants, joint identification including gene-gene interaction has been studied vigorously and produced many novel results. However, most genome-wide...
Contemporary molecular biology deals with a wide and heterogeneous set of measurements to model and understand underlying biological processes including complex diseases. Machine learning provides a frequent approach to build such models. However, the models built solely from measured data often suffer from overfitting, as the sample size is typically much smaller than the number of measured features...
In this research, we develop a hybrid recommendation system recommendation system for healthy living programs to patients with chronic diseases. Our experiments indicate that our model compared favorably against other real-world recommendation applications in terms of accuracy. We also demonstrated that the proposed hybrid algorithm performed better than traditional CF in terms of error rate, precision...
There is a significant increase in attention being paid to personal wellness as a preventative strategy in healthcare. At the same time, chronic diseases are the major cause of mortality, accounting for 7 out of 10 deaths in the United States. Healthcare costs involved in managing chronic diseases are also very high. So there is a need to help better maintain individual wellness, as well as better...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurological progressive disorder caused by lack of the chemical dopamine in the brain. Up to today, there is still no cure or prevention for PD, and usually the disease worsens gradually over time. However, this disease can be controlled with some treatment, especially in the early stage. Hence, this study proposes a method in early detection and diagnosis of...
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