Using support vector machines in diagnoses of urological dysfunctions

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.12.055 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Gil). Urinary incontinence is one of the largest diseases affecting between 10% and 30% of the adult population and an increase is expected in the next decade with rising treatment costs as a consequence. There are many types of urological dysfunctions causing urinary incontinence, which makes cheap and accurate diagnosing an important issue. This paper proposes a support vector machine (SVM) based method for diagnosing urological dysfunctions. 381 registers collected from patients suffering from a variety of urological dysfunctions have been used to ensure the (generalization) performance of the decision support system. Moreover, the robustness of the proposed system is examined by fivefold cross-validation and the results show that the SVM-based method can achieve an average classification accuracy at 84.25%. 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.