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Detection of Carotid Artery Disease by Using Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network

Journal of Medical Systems volume 36, pages 533–540 (2012)Cite this article

Abstract

Doppler ultrasound has been usually preferred for investigation of the artery conditions in the last two decades, because it is a non-invasive, easy to apply and reliable technique. In this study, a biomedical system based on Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network (LVQ NN) has been developed in order to classify the internal carotid artery Doppler signals obtained from the 191 subjects, 136 of them had suffered from internal carotid artery stenosis and rest of them had been healthy subject. The system is composed of feature extraction and classification parts, basically. In the feature extraction stage, power spectral density (PSD) estimates of internal carotid artery Doppler signals were obtained by using Burg autoregressive (AR) spectrum analysis technique in order to obtain medical information. In the classification stage, LVQ NN was used classify features from Burg AR method. In experiments, LVQ NN based method reached 97.91% classification accuracy with 5 fold Cross Validation (CV) technique. In addition, the classification performance of the LVQ NN was compared with some methods such as Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) NN, Naive Bayes (NB), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), decision tree and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with sensitivity and specificity statistical parameters. The classification results showed that the LVQ NN method is effective for classification of internal carotid artery Doppler signals.

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Uğuz, H. Detection of Carotid Artery Disease by Using Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network. J Med Syst 36, 533–540 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9498-8

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Keywords

  • Learning vector quantization
  • Doppler signal
  • Carotid artery
  • Power spectral density
  • Autoregressive method