Document Type : Original/Review Paper
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Department of Electrical Engineering, YI.C, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Liver disorders are among the most common diseases worldwide, and their timely diagnosis and prediction can significantly improve treatment outcomes. In recent years, the application of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning and deep learning algorithms, in the medical field has gained tremendous importance and has led to reduced healthcare costs. In this study, the ILPD dataset from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, which comprises 583 liver patient records with 11 features, was utilized. In this research, a predictive framework based on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is employed for the prediction of liver disorders. To address the class imbalance in the binary classification dataset, the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE)–Tomek approach was implemented to improve data balance. Moreover, due to the presence of a substantial number of outlier values, a robust scaling method was applied for their management. Finally, the performance of the proposed method was compared with three well-known machine learning algorithms. To enhance evaluation robustness, a five-fold cross-validation was employed across all classifiers. All simulations were conducted using Python, and the results illustrate that the proposed method achieves superior performance, with an accuracy of 90.90% compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
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