Enhancement of hepatitis virus immunoassay outcome predictions in imbalanced routine pathology data by data balancing and feature selection before the application of support vector machines

Abstract Background Data mining techniques such as support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully used to predict outcomes for complex problems, including for human health. Much health data is imbalanced, with many more controls than positive cases. Methods The impact of three balancing metho...

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Main Authors: Alice M. Richardson, Brett A. Lidbury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-017-0522-5