TY - GEN
T1 - Ensemble techniques with weighted combination rules for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
AU - Stepenosky, Nicholas
AU - Kounios, John
AU - Clark, Christopher M.
AU - Polikar, Robi
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - As the population of our elderly suffering from Alzheimer's disease increases rapidly, the need for an accurate, inexpensive and non-intrusive diagnostic procedure that can be made available to local community clinics becomes an increasingly critical public health concern. We propose multiresolution analysis of the electroencephalogram (EEG) followed by an ensemble based classification designed to fuse data from different EEG channels. Several classifier combination rules, including competence based weighted combination have been implemented to evaluate their data fusion performance, with particular emphasis on diagnosing the disease at its earliest stages. Diagnostic performance of the proposed approach has been very promising.
AB - As the population of our elderly suffering from Alzheimer's disease increases rapidly, the need for an accurate, inexpensive and non-intrusive diagnostic procedure that can be made available to local community clinics becomes an increasingly critical public health concern. We propose multiresolution analysis of the electroencephalogram (EEG) followed by an ensemble based classification designed to fuse data from different EEG channels. Several classifier combination rules, including competence based weighted combination have been implemented to evaluate their data fusion performance, with particular emphasis on diagnosing the disease at its earliest stages. Diagnostic performance of the proposed approach has been very promising.
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U2 - 10.1109/ijcnn.2006.246937
DO - 10.1109/ijcnn.2006.246937
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:40649101022
SN - 0780394909
SN - 9780780394902
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings
SP - 1935
EP - 1941
BT - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2006, IJCNN '06
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2006, IJCNN '06
Y2 - 16 July 2006 through 21 July 2006
ER -