Title
Diagnostic Classification of Cases of Canine Leishmaniasis Using Machine Learning
Abstract
Proposal techniques that reduce financial costs in the diagnosis and treatment of animal diseases are welcome. This work uses some machine learning techniques to classify whether or not cases of canine visceral leishmaniasis are present by physical examinations. For validation of the method, four machine learning models were chosen: K-nearest neighbor, Naive Bayes, support vector machine and logistic regression models. The tests were performed on three hundred and forty dogs, using eighteen characteristics of the animal and the ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) serological test as validation. Logistic regression achieved the best metrics: Accuracy of 75%, sensitivity of 84%, specificity of 67%, a positive likelihood ratio of 2.53 and a negative likelihood ratio of 0.23, showing a positive relationship in the evaluation between the true positives and rejecting the cases of false negatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22093128
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
machine learning, classification, logistic regression, canine visceral leishmaniasis
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
12