Optimization the initial weights of artificial neural networks via genetic algorithm applied to hip bone fracture prediction

Authors:
Yu-Tzu Chang;Jinn Lin;Jiann-Shing Shieh;Maysam F. Abbod
Affiliations:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Chungli, Taiwan;Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Chungli, Taiwan and Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translational Medicine, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan;School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, London, UK
Venue:
Advances in Fuzzy Systems - Special issue on Hybrid Biomedical Intelligent Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper aims to find the optimal set of initial weights to enhance the accuracy of artificial neural networks (ANNs) by using genetic algorithms (GA). The sample in this study included 228 patients with first low-trauma hip fracture and 215 patients without hip fracture, both of them were interviewed with 78 questions. We used logistic regression to select 5 important factors (i.e., bone mineral density, experience of fracture, average hand grip strength, intake of coffee, and peak expiratory flow rate) for building artificial neural networks to predict the probabilities of hip fractures. Three-layer (one hidden layer) ANNs models with back-propagation training algorithms were adopted. The purpose in this paper is to find the optimal initial weights of neural networks via genetic algorithm to improve the predictability. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) was used to assess the performance of neural networks. The study results showed the genetic algorithm obtained an AUC of 0.858 ± 0.00493 on modeling data and 0.802±0.03318 on testing data. They were slightly better than the results of our previous study (0.868±0.00387 and 0.796±0.02559, resp.). Thus, the preliminary study for only using simple GA has been proved to be effective for improving the accuracy of artificial neural networks.