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Improving Classications for Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy Using Multi-level Ensemble Classiers and Feature Selection Based
Kelarev, A.V., Stranieri, A., Yearwood, J.L., Abawajy, J., Jelinek, H.F.
This paper is devoted to empirical investigation of novel multi-level ensemble meta classifiers for the detection and monitoring of progression of cardiac autonomic neuropathy, CAN, in diabetes patients. Our experiments relied on an extensive database and concentrated on ensembles of ensembles, or multi-level meta classifiers, for the classification of cardiac autonomic neuropathy progression. First, we carried out a thorough investigation comparing the performance of various base classifiers for several known sets of the most essential features in this database and determined that Random Forest significantly and consistently outperforms all other base classifiers in this new application. Second, we used feature selection and ranking implemented in Random Forest. It was able to identify a new set of features, which has turned out better than all other sets considered for this large and well-known database previously. Random Forest remained the very best classifier for the new set of features too. Third, we investigated meta classifiers and new multi-level meta classifiers based on Random Forest, which have improved its performance. The results obtained show that novel multi-level meta classifiers achieved further improvement and obtained new outcomes that are significantly better compared with the outcomes published in the literature previously for cardiac autonomic neuropathy. |
Cite as: Kelarev, A.V., Stranieri, A., Yearwood, J.L., Abawajy, J., Jelinek, H.F. (2012). Improving Classications for Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy Using Multi-level Ensemble Classiers and Feature Selection Based. In Proc. Data Mining and Analytics 2012 (AusDM 2012) Sydney, Australia. CRPIT, 134. Zhao, Y., Li, J. , Kennedy, P.J. and Christen, P. Eds., ACS. 93 - 102 |
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