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ArticleBioMed research international2022

Empirical Method for Thyroid Disease Classification Using a Machine Learning Approach.

Tahir Alyas, Muhammad Hamid, Khalid Alissa, Tauqeer Faiz, Nadia Tabassum, Aqeel Ahmad

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Article in BioMed research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Tahir AlyasDepartment of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0938-3127
Muhammad HamidDepartment of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2440-6596
Khalid AlissaSaudi Aramco Cybersecurity Chair, Networks and Communications Department, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
Tauqeer FaizDepartment of Enterprise Computing, Skyline University College, Sharjah, UAE.
Nadia TabassumDepartment of Computer Science & Information Technology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3760-3476
Aqeel AhmadUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China.
Lahore Garrison University · PKSaudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia) · SASkyline University College · AEUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences · PKVirtual University of Pakistan · PK

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are many thyroid diseases affecting people all over the world. Many diseases affect the thyroid gland, like hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and thyroid cancer. Thyroid inefficiency can cause severe symptoms in patients. Effective classification and machine learning play a significant role in the timely detection of thyroid diseases. This timely classification will indeed affect the timely treatment of the patients. Automatic and precise thyroid nodule detection in ultrasound pictures is critical for reducing effort and radiologists' mistake rate. Medical images have evolved into one of the most valuable and consistent data sources for machine learning generation. In this paper, various machine learning algorithms like decision tree, random forest algorithm, KNN, and artificial neural networks on the dataset create a comparative analysis to better predict the disease based on parameters established from the dataset. Also, the dataset has been manipulated for accurate prediction for the classification. The classification was performed on both the sampled and unsampled datasets for better comparison of the dataset. After dataset manipulation, we obtained the highest accuracy for the random forest algorithm, equal to 94.8% accuracy and 91% specificity.

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Machine LearningThyroid NoduleAlgorithmsDecision TreesHumansNeural Networks, ComputerSupport Vector Machine

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PMID35711517
PMCPMC9197629
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