Developing a hybrid predictive system for retinopathy

  • Authors:
  • Vimala Balakrishnan;Mohammad Reza Shakouri;Hooman Hoodeh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information System, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, Lamar University, TX, USA;Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Department of Computer System and Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Retinopathy or blindness due to diabetes is one of the most common complications among diabetics worldwide. Due to its high prevalence, early detections are necessary so as to avoid vision loss. This paper aims to discuss the design and development of a retinopathy predictive system which is based on data mining and case based reasoning CBR. To be specific, C5.0 was used to produce the decision tree whereas k-nearest neighbour and Hamming distance algorithms were used to select the three most similar cases for every new case entered into the system. Then a voting mechanism makes the final prediction. Results show that the hybrid system has a better accuracy prediction rate 85% compared to C5.0 76% and CBR 73% implemented solely.