Comparative Analysis of Supervised Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms for Kyphosis Disease Detection

Abstract

Although Kyphosis, an excessive forward rounding of the upper back, can occur at any age, adolescence is the most common time for Kyphosis. Surgery is frequently performed on Kyphosis patients; however, the condition may persist after the operation. The tricky part is figuring out, based on the patient’s traits, if the Kyphosis condition will continue after the treatment. There have been numerous models employed in the past to predict the Kyphosis disease, including Logistic Regression (LR), Naive Bayes (NB), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Deep Neural Network (DNN), and others. Unfortunately, the precision was overestimated. Based on the dataset received from Kaggle, we investigated how to predict Kyphosis disorders more accurately by using these models with Hyperparameter tuning. While the calculations were being performed, certain variables were modified. The accuracy was increased by optimizing the fit parameters based on Hyperparameter tuning. Accuracy, recall or sensitivity, specificity, precision, balanced accuracy score, F1 score, and AUC-ROC score of all models, including the Hyperparameter tuning, were compared. Overall, the Hyperparameter-tuned DNN models excelled over the other models. The DNN models’ accuracy was 87.72% with 5-fold cross-validation and 87.64% with 10-fold cross-validation. It is advised that when a patient has a clinical procedure, the DNN model be trained to detect and foresee Kyphosis disease. Medical experts can use this study’s findings to correctly predict if a patient will still have Kyphosis after surgery. We propose that deep learning should be adopted and utilized as a crucial and necessary tool throughout the broad range of resolving biological queries.

Keywords

• kyphosis
• machine learning
• deep learning
• logistic regression
• Naïve Bayes
• random forest