SHENFIELD, Alex and ROSTAMI, Shahin (2017). Multi-objective evolution of artificial neural networks in multi-class medical diagnosis problems with class imbalance. In: CIBCB 2017 : IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Manchester, 23-25 August 2017.
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Abstract
This paper proposes a novel multi-objective optimisation approach to solving both the problem of finding good structural and parametric choices in an ANN and the problem of training a classifier with a heavily skewed data set. The state-of-the-art CMA-PAES-HAGA multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is used to simultaneously optimise the structure, weights, and biases of a population of ANNs with respect to not only the overall classification accuracy, but the classification accuracies of each individual target class. The effectiveness of this approach is then demonstrated on a real-world multi-class problem in medical diagnosis (classification of fetal cardiotocogorams) where more than 75% of the data belongs to the majority class and the rest to two other minority classes. The optimised ANN is shown to significantly outperform a standard feed-forward ANN with respect to minority class recognition at the cost of slightly worse performance in terms of overall classification accuracy.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre |
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics |
Depositing User: | Alex Shenfield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2017 12:42 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 16:09 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16213 |
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