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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2014

Feature selection for better identification of subtypes of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

José Hernández-Torruco, Juana Canul-Reich, Juan Frausto-Solís, Juan José Méndez-Castillo

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2014. 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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José Hernández-TorrucoDivisión Académica de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Km. 1 Carretera Cunduacán-Jalpa de Méndez, Colonia La Esmeralda, 86690 Cunduacán, TAB, Mexico.
Juana Canul-ReichDivisión Académica de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Km. 1 Carretera Cunduacán-Jalpa de Méndez, Colonia La Esmeralda, 86690 Cunduacán, TAB, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-1893-1332
Juan Frausto-SolísUniversidad Politécnica del Estado de Morelos, Boulevard Cuauhnáhuac 566, Colonia Lomas del Texcal, 62574 Jiutepec, MOR, Mexico.
Juan José Méndez-CastilloHospital General de Especialidades "Dr. Javier Buenfil Osorio", Avenida Lázaro Cárdenas 208, Colonia Las Flores, 24097 San Francisco de Campeche, CAM, Mexico.
Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco · MXHospital de Especialidades · MXUniversidad Politecnica del Estado de Morelos · MX

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Abstract

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a neurological disorder which has not been explored using clustering algorithms. Clustering algorithms perform more efficiently when they work only with relevant features. In this work, we applied correlation-based feature selection (CFS), chi-squared, information gain, symmetrical uncertainty, and consistency filter methods to select the most relevant features from a 156-feature real dataset. This dataset contains clinical, serological, and nerve conduction tests data obtained from GBS patients. The most relevant feature subsets, determined with each filter method, were used to identify four subtypes of GBS present in the dataset. We used partitions around medoids (PAM) clustering algorithm to form four clusters, corresponding to the GBS subtypes. We applied the purity of each cluster as evaluation measure. After experimentation, symmetrical uncertainty and information gain determined a feature subset of seven variables. These variables conformed as a dataset were used as input to PAM and reached a purity of 0.7984. This result leads to a first characterization of this syndrome using computational techniques.

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Pattern Recognition, AutomatedAlgorithmsCluster AnalysisComputational BiologyDatabases, FactualGuillain-Barre SyndromeHumansNeural ConductionReproducibility of Results

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