Summary of Flexi-fuzz Least Squares Svm For Alzheimer’s Diagnosis: Tackling Noise, Outliers, and Class Imbalance, by Mushir Akhtar et al.
Flexi-Fuzz least squares SVM for Alzheimer’s diagnosis: Tackling noise, outliers, and class imbalance
by Mushir Akhtar, A. Quadir, M. Tanveer, Mohd. Arshad
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper introduces a novel membership scheme called Flexi-Fuzz to improve early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning algorithms. The scheme addresses common issues in diagnosing AD, such as noise, outliers, and class imbalance. It combines flexible weighting mechanisms, class probability, and imbalance ratio to maintain the influence of samples near the class boundary. Two model variants, Flexi-Fuzz-LSSVM-I and Flexi-Fuzz-LSSVM-II, are developed by incorporating the scheme into the least squares support vector machines (LSSVM) framework. The models are evaluated on benchmark UCI and KEEL datasets with and without label noise, as well as on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset for AD diagnosis. Experimental results show that Flexi-Fuzz-LSSVM models outperform baseline models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning. It creates a special system called Flexi-Fuzz that makes sure important information is used in the decision-making process, even when there are problems like noisy data or unbalanced classes. The researchers tested their system on different datasets and found it worked better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Probability
