论文标题
检查用于预测疾病早期痴呆症的机器学习方法的稳定性
Examining stability of machine learning methods for predicting dementia at early phases of the disease
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论文摘要
痴呆症是一种神经精神上的脑疾病，通常会在一个或多个脑细胞部分停止工作或根本停止工作时发生。在疾病的早期阶段诊断这种疾病是挽救患者从不良后果中挽救生命并为他们提供更好的医疗保健的至关重要的任务。事实证明，机器学习方法在预测疾病早期痴呆症方面是准确的。痴呆的预测在很大程度上取决于通常从归一化的全脑体积（NWBV）和地图集缩放系数（ASF）收集的收集数据类型，这些数据通常是根据磁共振成像（MRIS）进行测量并校正的。年龄和性别等其他生物学特征也可以帮助诊断痴呆症。尽管许多研究使用机器学习来预测痴呆症，但我们无法就这些方法的稳定性得出结论，而这些方法在不同的实验条件下更准确。因此，本文研究了有关痴呆预测的机器学习算法的性能的结论稳定性。为此，使用7种机器学习算法和两种功能还原算法，即信息增益（IG）和主组件分析（PCA）进行大量实验。为了检查这些算法的稳定性，IG的特征选择阈值从20％更改为100％，PCA尺寸从2到8。这导致了7x9 + 7x7 = 112实验。在每个实验中，都记录了各种分类评估数据。获得的结果表明，在七种算法中，支持向量机和天真的贝叶斯是最稳定的算法，同时更改选择阈值。同样，发现使用IG似乎比使用PCA预测痴呆症更有效。
Dementia is a neuropsychiatric brain disorder that usually occurs when one or more brain cells stop working partially or at all. Diagnosis of this disorder in the early phases of the disease is a vital task to rescue patients lives from bad consequences and provide them with better healthcare. Machine learning methods have been proven to be accurate in predicting dementia in the early phases of the disease. The prediction of dementia depends heavily on the type of collected data which usually are gathered from Normalized Whole Brain Volume (nWBV) and Atlas Scaling Factor (ASF) which are normally measured and corrected from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRIs). Other biological features such as age and gender can also help in the diagnosis of dementia. Although many studies use machine learning for predicting dementia, we could not reach a conclusion on the stability of these methods for which one is more accurate under different experimental conditions. Therefore, this paper investigates the conclusion stability regarding the performance of machine learning algorithms for dementia prediction. To accomplish this, a large number of experiments were run using 7 machine learning algorithms and two feature reduction algorithms namely, Information Gain (IG) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). To examine the stability of these algorithms, thresholds of feature selection were changed for the IG from 20% to 100% and the PCA dimension from 2 to 8. This has resulted in 7x9 + 7x7= 112 experiments. In each experiment, various classification evaluation data were recorded. The obtained results show that among seven algorithms the support vector machine and Naive Bayes are the most stable algorithms while changing the selection threshold. Also, it was found that using IG would seem more efficient than using PCA for predicting Dementia.
