Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning for Improved Identification of Intrauterine Growth Restriction Types

Abstract

Abstract-This paper concerns automated identification of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) types by use of machine learning methods. The research presents a comparison of supervised and unsupervised learning covering single and hybrid classification, as well as clustering. Supervised learning techniques included bagging with Naïve Bayes, k-nearest neighbours (kNN), C4.5 and SMO as base classifiers, random forest as a variant of bagging with a decision tree as a base classifier, boosting with Naïve Bayes, SMO, kNN and C4.5 as base classifiers, and voting by all single classifiers using majority as a combination rule, as well as five single classification strategies: kNN, C4.5, Naïve Bayes, random tree and sequential minimal optimization algorithm for training support vector machines. Unsupervised learning encompassed k-means and expectation-maximization algorithms. The major conclusion drawn from the study was that hybrid classifiers have demonstrated their potential ability to identify more accurately symmetrical and asymmetrical types of IUGR, whereas the unsupervised learning techniques produced the worst results.

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