Enhancing Parkinson’s Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning and Feature Selection Methods

Several millions of people suffer from Parkinson’s disease globally.Parkinson’s affects about 1%of people over 60 and its symptoms increase with age.The voice may be affected and patients experience abnormalities in speech that might not be noticed by listeners,but which could be analyzed using recorded speech signals.With the huge advancements of technology,the medical data has increased dramatically,and therefore,there is a need to apply data mining and machine learning methods to extract new knowledge from this data.Several classification methods were used to analyze medical data sets and diagnostic problems,such as Parkinson’s Disease(PD).In addition,to improve the performance of classification,feature selection methods have been extensively used in many fields.This paper aims to propose a comprehensive approach to enhance the prediction of PD using several machine learning methods with different feature selection methods such as filter-based and wrapper-based.The dataset includes 240 recodes with 46 acoustic features extracted from3 voice recording replications for 80 patients.The experimental results showed improvements when wrapper-based features selection method was used with K-NN classifier with accuracy of 88.33%.The best obtained results were compared with other studies and it was found that this study provides comparable and superior results.

Mango internal defect detection based on optimal wavelength selection method using NIR spectroscopy

A non-destructive technique should be developed for performance analysis of mango fruits because the spongy tissue or internal defects could lower the quality of mango fruit and incur a lack of productivity.In this study,wavelength selection methods were proposed to identify the range of wavelengths for the classification of defected and healthy mango fruits.Feature selection methods were adopted here to achieve a significant selection of wavelengths.To measure the goodness of themodel,the datasetwas collected using the NIR(Near Infrared)spectroscopy with wavelength ranging from 673 nm–1900 nm.The classification was performed using Euclidean distance measure both in the original feature space and in FLD(Fisher's Linear Discriminant)transformed space.The experimental results showed that the lower range wavelength(673 nm–1100 nm)was the efficient wavelength for the detection of internal defects in mangoes.Further to express the effectiveness of the model,different feature selection techniques were investigated and found that the Fisher's criterion based technique appeared to be the best method for effective wavelength selection useful for classification of defected and healthy mango fruits.The optimal wavelengths were found in the range of 702.72 nm to 752.34 nm using Fisher's criterionwith a classification accuracy of 84.5%.This study showed that NIR systemis a useful technology for the automaticmango fruit assessmentwhich has the potential to be used for internal defects in online sorting,easily distinguishable by those who do not meet minimum quality requirements.