Title
Applying machine learning techniques in detecting Bacterial Vaginosis.
Abstract
There are several diseases which arise because of changes in the microbial communities in the body. Scientists continue to conduct research in a quest to find the catalysts that provoke these changes in the naturally occurring microbiota. Bacterial Vaginosis (BY) is a disease that fits the above criteria. BV afflicts approximately 29% of women in child bearing age. Unfortunately, its causes are unknown. This paper seeks to uncover the most important features for diagnosis and in turn employ classification algorithms on those features. In order to fulfill our purpose, we conducted two experiments on the data. We isolated the clinical and medical features from the full set of raw data, we compared the accuracy, precision, recall and F-measure and time elapsed for each feature selection and classification grouping. We noticed that classification results were as good or better after performing feature selection although there was a wide range in the number of features produced from the feature selection process. After comparing the experiments, the algorithms performed best on the medical dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICMLC.2014.7009123
ICMLC
Keywords
Field
DocType
f measure,microorganisms,information technology,learning artificial intelligence,classification,accuracy,wireless sensor networks,machine learning,feature selection,classification algorithms
Bacterial vaginosis,Pattern recognition,Feature selection,Computer science,Raw data,Artificial intelligence,Statistical classification,Recall,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
1
2160-133X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yolanda S. Baker110.71
Rajeev Agrawal200.68
James A. Foster301.01
Daniel Beck412.17
Gerry V. Dozier500.34