Abstract:Artificial neural networks are a promising field in medical diagnostic applications. The goal of this study is to propose a neural network for medical diagnosis. A feed-forward back propagation neural network with tan-sigmoid transfer functions is used in this paper. The dataset is obtained from UCI machine learning repository. The results of applying the proposed neural network to distinguish between healthy patients and patients with disease based upon biomedical data in all cases show the ability of the network to learn the patterns corresponding to symptoms of the person. Three cases are studied. In the diagnosis of acute nephritis disease; the percent correctly classified in the simulation sample by the feed-forward back propagation network is 100% while in the diagnosis of heart disease; the percent correctly classified in the simulation sample by the feed-forward back propagation network is approximately 88%. On the other hand, in the diagnosis of disk hernia or spondylolisthesis; the percent correctly classified in the simulation sample is approximately 82%. Receiver operating characteristics (ROCs) curve are used to evaluate diagnosis for decision support.
Biometric face recognition including digital processing and analyzing a subject's facial structure. This system has a certain number of points and measures, including the distances between the main features such as eyes, nose and mouth, angles of features such as the jaw and forehead with the lengths of the different parts of the face. With this information, the implemented algorithm creates a unique model with all the digital data. This model can then be compared with the huge databases of images of the face to identify the subject. The recognition features are retrieved here using histogram equalization technique. A high-resolution result is obtained applying this algorithm under the conditions of a specific image database.
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