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Application of combined genetic algorithms with cascade correlation to diagnosis of delayed gastric emptying from electrogastrograms
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Application of combined genetic algorithms with cascade correlation to diagnosis of delayed gastric emptying from electrogastrograms

Zhiyue Liu, Hualou Liang, J.D.Z Chen and R.W McCallum
Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 'Magnificent Milestones and Emerging Opportunities in Medical Engineering' (Cat. No.97CH36136), v 3, pp 1355-1358 vol.3
1997
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.1997.756628

Abstract

Abdomen Delay Electrodes Genetic algorithms Measurement standards Neural networks Skin Solids Stomach Testing
The currently established method for the diagnosis of delayed gastric emptying (GE) of a solid meal involves radiation exposure and considerable expense. Based on combining genetic algorithms with the cascade correlation learning architecture, a neural network approach is proposed for the diagnosis of delayed GE from electrogastrograms (EGGs). EGGs were measured by placing surface electrodes on the abdominal skin over the stomach in 152 patients with suspected gastric motility disorders for 30 minutes in the fasting state and for 2 hours after a standard test meal. The GE rate of the stomach was simultaneously monitored after the meal using the established method. Five spectral parameters of EGG data in each patient were used as the inputs to a classifier. The classifier was designed by using genetic algorithms in conjunction with the cascade correlation learning architecture. The main advantage of this technique over back-propagation (BP) for supervised learning is that it can automatically grow the architecture of neural networks to give a suitable network size for a specific problem and significantly reduce the training time. The resulted neural network with three hidden units exhibits 83% correct classification for the EGG data, and has comparable performance with the BP network. This preliminary study demonstrates that the potential of the neural network approach based on combining genetic algorithms with cascade correlation for diagnosis of gastric emptying from the EGG.

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