A New Evolutionary Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbor with Application to Parkinson’s Diagnosis
摘要
In this study, we introduce a robust and efficient diagnostic system for Parkinson’s disease (PD) based on an enhanced fuzzy k-nearest neighbor (FKNN) algorithm using firefly optimization (FFO). Our proposed system, termed FFO–FKNN, employs both continuous and binary versions of FFO for simultaneous parameter optimization and feature selection. Specifically, the continuous FFO adaptively determines the neighborhood size k and the fuzzy strength parameter m in the FKNN classifier, while the binary FFO selects the most discriminative feature subset for prediction. The FFO–FKNN model’s effectiveness was thoroughly assessed on five speech datasets, evaluating classification accuracy, recall, precision, F1-Score, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC). Compared to previous methods, our system achieved the highest classification accuracy, with a mean accuracy of 100% through 10-fold cross-validation. This promising diagnostic system could potentially become a powerful tool for accurately diagnosing PD.