Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 38, Issue 10, Pages 12470-12474Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.028
Keywords
Parallel neural networks; Parkinson's Disease; Decision support system
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Recently the neural network based diagnosis of medical diseases has taken a great deal of attention. In this paper a parallel feed-forward neural network structure is used in the prediction of Parkinson's Disease. The main idea of this paper is using more than a unique neural network to reduce the possibility of decision with error. The output of each neural network is evaluated by using a rule-based system for the final decision. Another important point in this paper is that during the training process, unlearned data of each neural network is collected and used in the training set of the next neural network. The designed parallel network system significantly increased the robustness of the prediction. A set of nine parallel neural networks yielded an improvement of 8.4% on the prediction of Parkinson's Disease compared to a single unique network. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the designed system, to some extent, deals with the problems of imbalanced data sets. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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