Tuberculosis Disease Diagnosis Using Artificial Neural Network Trained with Genetic Algorithm

Authors:
Erhan Elveren;Nejat Yumuşak
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Engineering, Sakarya University, Adapazari, Turkey 54187;Department of Computer Engineering, Sakarya University, Adapazari, Turkey 54187
Venue:
Journal of Medical Systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Tuberculosis is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacterium; in humans it is mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Wikipedia 2009). It is a great problem for most developing countries because of the low diagnosis and treatment opportunities. Tuberculosis has the highest mortality level among the diseases caused by a single type of microorganism. Thus, tuberculosis is a great health concern all over the world, and in Turkey as well. This article presents a study on tuberculosis diagnosis, carried out with the help of multilayer neural networks (MLNNs). For this purpose, an MLNN with two hidden layers and a genetic algorithm for training algorithm has been used. The tuberculosis dataset was taken from a state hospital's database, based on patient's epicrisis reports.