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Liver fibrosis is a common disease of the European population (but not only them). It may have many backgrounds and may develop with a different rapidity—it may stay hidden for many years or rapidly develop into terminal stage called cirrhosis, where liver can no longer fulfill its function. Unfortunately, current methods of diagnosis are either connected with a potential risk for a patient and require a hospitalization or are expensive and not very accurate. This paper presents a comparative study of various feature selection algorithms combined with selected machine learning algorithms which may be used to build an advanced liver fibrosis diagnosis support system based on a nonexpensive and safe routine blood tests. Experiments carried out on a dataset collected by authors, proved usability and satisfactory accuracy of the presented algorithms.
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This work was supported by the Polish National Science Center under the grant no. DEC-2013/09/B/ST6/02264.
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Orczyk, T., Porwik, P. (2016). Liver Fibrosis Diagnosis Support System Using Machine Learning Methods. In: Chaki, R., Cortesi, A., Saeed, K., Chaki, N. (eds) Advanced Computing and Systems for Security. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 395. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2650-5_8
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