Accessing Artificial Intelligence for Fetus Health Status Using Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithm (AlexNet-SVM) on Cardiotocographic Data.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

Artificial intelligence is serving as an impetus in digital health, clinical support, and health informatics for an informed patient's outcome. Previous studies only consider classification accuracies of cardiotocographic (CTG) datasets and disregard computational time, which is a relevant parameter in a clinical environment. This paper proposes a modified deep neural algorithm to classify untapped pathological and suspicious CTG recordings with the desired time complexity. In our newly developed classification algorithm, AlexNet architecture is merged with support vector machines (SVMs) at the fully connected layers to reduce time complexity. We used an open-source UCI (Machine Learning Repository) dataset of cardiotocographic (CTG) recordings. We divided 2126 CTG recordings into 3 classes (Normal, Pathological, and Suspected), including 23 attributes that were dynamically programmed and fed to our algorithm. We employed a deep transfer learning (TL) mechanism to transfer prelearned features to our model. To reduce time complexity, we implemented a strategy wherein layers in the convolutional base were partially trained to leave others in the frozen states. We used an ADAM optimizer for the optimization of hyperparameters. The presented algorithm also outperforms the leading architectures (RCNNs, ResNet, DenseNet, and GoogleNet) with respect to real-time accuracies, sensitivities, and specificities of 99.72%, 96.67%, and 99.6%, respectively, making it a viable candidate for clinical settings after real-time validation.

Authors

  • Nadia Muhammad Hussain
    Lambe Institute for Translational Research, National University of Ireland Galway, H91TK33 Galway, Ireland.
  • Ateeq Ur Rehman
    Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
  • Mohamed Tahar Ben Othman
    Department of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.
  • Junaid Zafar
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
  • Haroon Zafar
    Lambe Institute for Translational Research, National University of Ireland Galway, H91TK33 Galway, Ireland.
  • Habib Hamam
    School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.