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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 221-226 |
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An ensemble method for diagnosis of Parkinson's disease based on voice measurements
Razieh Sheibani, Elham Nikookar, Seyed Enayatollah Alavi
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
| Date of Submission | 17-Nov-2018 |
| Date of Decision | 06-Mar-2019 |
| Date of Acceptance | 12-Apr-2019 |
| Date of Web Publication | 23-Oct-2019 |
Correspondence Address:
Mrs. Elham Nikookar
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz
Iran
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | 13 |
DOI: 10.4103/jmss.JMSS_57_18
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common destructive neurological disorder after Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, there is no specific test such as electroencephalography or blood test for diagnosing the disease. In accordance with the previous studies, about 90% of people with PD have some types of voice abnormalities. Therefore, voice measurements can be used to detect the disease. Methods: This study presents an ensemble-based method for identifying patients and healthy samples by class label prediction based on voice frequency characteristics. It includes three stages of data preprocessing, internal classification and ultimate classification. The outcomes of internal classifiers next to primary feature vector of samples are considered the ultimate classifier inputs. Results: According to the results, the proposed method achieved 90.6% of accuracy, 95.8% of sensitivity, and 75% of specificity, admissible compared to those of other relevant studies. Conclusion: Current experimental outcomes provide a comparative analysis of various machine learning classifiers and confirm that using ensemble-based methods has improved medical diagnostic tasks. Keywords: Classification, ensemble learning, medical diagnostics, parkinson's disease, voice measurements
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Sheibani R, Nikookar E, Alavi SE. An ensemble method for diagnosis of Parkinson's disease based on voice measurements. J Med Signals Sens 2019;9:221-6 |
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Sheibani R, Nikookar E, Alavi SE. An ensemble method for diagnosis of Parkinson's disease based on voice measurements. J Med Signals Sens [serial online] 2019 [cited 2023 Jun 5];9:221-6. Available from: https://www.jmssjournal.net/text.asp?2019/9/4/221/269796 |
| Introduction | |  |
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common destructive neurological disease after Alzheimer's disease. It was first reported by James Parkinson, a British scientist, in 1817. He named the disease a shaking palsy which is known today as PD.[1] According to the European Parkinson Disease Association statistics, about 6.3 million people around the world are involved with this disease.[2] PD is a chronic and progressive disease in which brain dopamine-secreting cells are destroyed. Due to the absence of dopamine, body movements become irregular. Nearly 70%–80% of dopamine-secreting cells are destroyed when primary Parkinson symptoms appear. Tremoring of hands and feet while resting is one of the most common symptoms of the disease. Other symptoms include muscle stiffening, voice changing, slowness of movements, and depression.[3] The average age for symptoms to appear is about 60, even though one among twenty samples demonstrates primary symptoms under the age of 50. Unfortunately, elderly people may associate these symptoms with age-related changes. It should be noted that PD is currently untreatable, but the available drugs significantly reduce the symptoms, mainly at the beginning of the disease.[4] Based on previous studies, about 90% of people with PD have some types of voice abnormalities. Therefore, voice measurements can be used to diagnose and track the progression of PD's symptoms.[5] In order to determine these symptoms, various verbal experiments are designed. These experiments are categorized into two main groups: running speech experiments and sustained phonation experiments. For the first group of experiments, patients are asked to say an expression that includes a sample of linguistic units and for the second one, they are asked to generate a single vowel.[6],[7] In many studies, mentioned verbal experiments are used as an effective element for determining patients and healthy samples. Sakar et al.[8] used a dataset of 40 samples including 20 patients. Each person has been taught to say a set of 26 distinct terms, including sustained vowels, numbers, words, and short sentences. They applied the Summarized Leave One Out technique on each person's voice samples and achieved an accuracy of 77.5%. Zhang et al.[9] applied a combination of Multi Edit Nearest Neighbor and an ensemble learning algorithm on the previous dataset. They obtained an improved classification accuracy of 29.44%. Tsanas et al.[10] used a dataset of 42 participants including 6000 voice samples. They evaluated the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) which indicates the presence and severity of symptoms by applying linear and nonlinear regression analyses. Their study showed a useful accuracy of 7.5 UPDRS points different from the clinician's estimates. Gil and Johnson[11] used a dataset of 31 samples including 23 patients. They applied artificial neural networks (ANNs) and support vector machines (SVMs) and obtained an accuracy of 90%. Other studies on this dataset are as follows: Ene[12] applied three types of probabilistic neural networks including incremental search, Monte Carlo search, and hybrid search (HS). Their study reported that mentioned techniques are not significantly different, but the HS technique with an accuracy of 81% performs better. Ullah Khan,[13] after data preprocessing by means of data cleaning and recovering missing values, applied three methods of k-nearest neighboring (k-NN), AdaBoost (AB), and random forest (RF) to classify the data. Finally, k-NN achieved the best accuracy of 90.2%. Khemphila and Boonjing[14] applied ANN to classify patients and healthy samples. They obtained about 83.3% of accuracy. Ozcift and Gulten[15] proposed classifier ensemble construction with a rotation forest approach that achieved a classification accuracy of 87.13%. In this study, the mentioned dataset of Gil and Johnson which is a collection of multiple voice recordings has been used.
| Methods | | |
This study presents an ensemble-based method for diagnosing patients and healthy samples by class label prediction based on voice frequency characteristics. It includes three stages of data preprocessing, internal classification, and ultimate classification. In the first stage, for improving the processing time, dataset is separated into six subsets according to recorded voice types. Therefore, each dataset sample has only one record in each subset. In the next stage, by applying a set of different internal classifiers, several prediction models are generated. Then, the result of each prediction model is calculated and considered as the next stage's input. At the end, ultimate classifiers determine the final class label of the sample. A schematic illustration of the proposed method is depicted in [Figure 1]. | Figure 1: Schematic illustration of the proposed method. MLP: Multilayer perceptron, DT: Decision tree, NB: Naive Bayes
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Because performance evaluation is a vital task in all autodiagnostic systems, three evaluation metrics of accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity have been used to indicate the efficiency of different classifiers. Accuracy is a general metric that allows researchers to measure the efficiency of a method. Sensitivity and specificity refer to the level of sensitivity and specificity of their proposed method, and they are more common in the medical diagnostic domain. The quite description of mentioned metrics is shown in [Table 1].
| Results | | |
The data for this study, developed by the University of Oxford in cooperation with the National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, Colorado, include biomedical phonetic measurements of 31 men and 23 women with PD. The duration of diagnosis was from 0 to 28 years, and the age range was between 46 and 85 years, with an average age of 65.8 years. On an average, six voices were recorded for each person.[16] For the analysis of people with PD, 23 voice frequency characteristics were measured that are demonstrated completely in [Table 2].
In order to apply the proposed method, the WEKA software (Developed by University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand) was used. WEKA includes a set of data mining and machine learning algorithms. After initial preprocessing of the data and creating six subsets, several well-known classification algorithms including the k-NN (k with values of 1, 3, and 5), SVM, DT, and NB were used. For a better prediction, all these classifiers were applied on the data using 10-fold cross validation. It is worth mentioning that the ABM1 method was used as a resampling method due to the small number of data samples. The obtained accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity measures of applying each internal classifier on the data are summarized in [Table 3], [Table 4], [Table 5], respectively.
According to the results, k-NN algorithm (k with a value of 1) showed better performance than others with about 90% of accuracy. In the next stage, MLP, AB, RF, and voting were applied as the ultimate classifiers, using 10-fold cross validation. The main motive for using this method was to reduce the error rate. In ensemble learning methods, the probability of a mistake in determining a class label or position of a new sample is much less than the prediction mode with only one model. The obtained accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity measures of applying each ultimate classifier are summarized in [Table 6], [Table 7], [Table 8], respectively.
In addition, comparison between the results of ultimate classification stage is depicted in [Chart 1], [Chart 2], [Chart 3].
In accordance with the results, both MLP (with SVM and NB kernels) and AB (with NB kernel) ultimate classifiers showed better performance and obtained 90.6% of classification accuracy, 95.8% of sensitivity, and 75.0% of specificity. However, the proposed method has achieved acceptable results by applying an ensemble-based approach; another vital challenge is to compare the current work with other previous studies. For this purpose, some previous studies with similar data are summarized in [Table 9]. Regarding classification accuracy which is a well-known evaluation metric that is used in related studies, the ensemble-based approach has achieved better performance.
| Discussion | | |
As mentioned previously, there is no specific test such as electroencephalography or blood test for diagnosing PD. Moreover, timely diagnosis of this disease is a vital task for clinical reasons. In these cases, developing a prediction method by means of machine learning techniques will be helpful. In order to identify PD patients, a combination of various machine learning classifiers has been investigated. The proposed method takes the advantage of gathering internal classifiers by sending their outcomes to the next classification stage. Initially, by applying internal classifiers, different models are created on the training data. The outcomes of internal classifiers next to primary feature vector of samples are considered the ultimate classifier inputs. Then, the final classifiers determine the sample class label which results in a lower error rate. In accordance with the results, both MLP and AB classifiers showed better performance and obtained 90.6% of classification accuracy, 95.8% of sensitivity, and 75% of specificity, admissible compared to those of other relevant studies.
| Conclusion | | |
Due to the difficult medical diagnostic of PD and its prevalence, presenting a simple and inexpensive solution for its correct and timely diagnosis is very important. An effective way for diagnosing PD is to compare the voice frequency characteristic of people under controlled conditions. This study presents an ensemble method for detecting patients and healthy samples by class label prediction based on mentioned voice frequency characteristics. It evaluates the idea of merging primary feature vector of samples and predicted class labels. The current experimental results confirm that the idea of using the proposed method has improved the machine learning outcomes and also medical diagnostic tasks.
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| Biographies | | |
Razieh Sheibani has received her B.Sc. in computer engineering from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran in 2018. Her research interest includes data mining, medical image processing and computational intelligence.
Email: [email protected]
Elham Nikookar has received her B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, and her M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2012. She is currently an instructor and a faculty member in Computer Engineering Department of Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran.
Email: [email protected]
Seyed Enayatollah Alavi has received his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran, in 1991, his M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 1996 and his PhD degree in computer engineering from Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor in Computer Engineering Department of Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran.
Email: [email protected]
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[Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3], [Table 4], [Table 5], [Table 6], [Table 7], [Table 8], [Table 9]
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