Optimization assisted framework for thyroid detection and classification: A new ensemble technique.

Ultrasound (US) is an inexpensive and non-invasive technique for capturing the image of the thyroid gland and nearby tissue. The classification and detection of thyroid disorders is still in its infant stage. This study aims to present a new thyroid diagnosis approach, which consists of three phases like "(i) feature extraction, (ii) feature dimensionality reduction, and (iii) classification".

Effect of a multi-lead PCA approach on modified moving average method for T-wave alternans detection.

T-wave alternans, a beat-to-beat re-polarization pattern variation phenomenon, plays an important role in sudden cardiac death prediction. The proposed method modifies the currently available Modified Moving Average Method (MMAM) by a multi-lead principal component analysis (PCA) approach. Application of PCA will concentrate the alternans effect, which is supposed to be distributed on multiple leads in a single derived lead.