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ArticleJournal of medical systems2008

A radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) approach for structural classification of thyroid diseases.

Rizvan Erol, Seyfettin Noyan Oğulata, Cenk Sahin, Z Nazan Alparslan

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Article in Journal of medical systems, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Rizvan ErolDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Cukurova University, 01330 Adana, Turkey. rerol@cu.edu.tr
Seyfettin Noyan Oğulata
Cenk Sahin
Z Nazan Alparslan

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The thyroid is a gland that controls key functions of body. Diseases of the thyroid gland can adversely affect nearly every organ in human body. The correct diagnosis of a patient's thyroid disease clarifies the choice of drug treatment and also allows an accurate assessment of prognosis in many cases. This study investigates Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLPNN) and Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) for structural classification of thyroid diseases. A data set for 487 patients having thyroid disease is used to build, train and test the corresponding neural networks. The structural classification of this data set was performed by two expert physicians before the input variables and results were fed into the neural networks. Experimental results show that the predictions of both neural network models are very satisfying for learning data sets. Regarding the evaluation data, the trained RBFNN model outperforms the corresponding MLPNN model. This study demonstrates the strong utility of an artificial neural network model for structural classification of thyroid diseases.

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Neural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsHumansMedical RecordsThyroid DiseasesThyroid Function TestsThyroid Gland

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