Feature-driven machine learning to improve early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

• Published in: Expert systems with applications Vol. 110; pp. 182 - 190
• Main Authors: Parisi, Luca, RaviChandran, Narrendar, Manaog, Marianne Lyne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Ltd 15.11.2018; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Classification; Classifiers; Colleges & universities; Decision making models; Decision support; Diagnosis; Diagnostic systems; Expert systems; Feature selection; Hybrid systems; Machine learning; Medical diagnosis; Multi-layer perceptron; Multilayers; Parkinson's disease; Speech processing; Support vector machines; Feature selection; Parkinson's disease; Diagnosis; Multi-layer perceptron; Machine learning; Decision support

•We developed a novel hybrid algorithm for aiding early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.•We compared the performance of the hybrid algorithm against commercially available software.•We also compared the performance of the hybrid algorithm against models from published studies.•Customised algor...