Machine learning technique for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosing using online handwriting data
摘要
The utilization of Data Mining (DM) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches in Alzheimer Disease (AD) diagnosis has lately gained a lot of attention. However, utmost of these studies still required improvement since either they were evaluated utilizing insufficient assessment-measurements; or they were not statistically-evaluated; or both. Recently, the PSO-ELM (Particle Swarm Optimization-Extreme Learning Machine) is considered one-of-the-most well-known and effective ML methods, it has seen as a reputable and efficient technique for categorizing-data, however it hasn’t been employed in AD diagnosis issue. Thus, this study proposes the PSO-ELM model in-order-to lift the accuracy rate of AD diagnosis. The PSO-ELM model has the capability to (i) ability to be utilized on both (binary/multi-class) classification, (ii) prevent overfitting; and also (iii) it has a similar capability to kernel-based SVM (Support Vector Machine) and functions with a structure of neural-network. In this paper, the DARWIN (Diagnosis AlzheimeR WIth haNdwriting) dataset was utilized to assess the PSO-ELM model performance. The experimentations results have demonstrated the distinct performance of the proposed PSO-ELM model, which reached an average of F-Measure 98.58%, recall 100.00%, specificity 97.60%, precision 97.59%, G-Mean 98.60%, MCC 97.22%, and accuracy 98.57%. This designates that the PSO-ELM model is a reliable method for AD diagnosis and might be appropriate for resolving other-systems-related matters in healthcare sector. Also, it can aid as a respected/valuable decision-support tool for the doctors, providing further info and visions to help in their diagnosis and treatment strategies.