IMPLEMENTATION OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR CLASSIFICATION OF CLINICAL DATASETS

In this paper, Principal Component Analysis is used for feature extraction, and a statistical learning based Support Vector Machine is designed for functional classification of clinical data. Appendicitis data collected from BHEL Hospital, Trichy is taken and classified under three classes. Feature extraction transforms the data in the high-dimensional space to a space of fewer dimensions. The classification is done by constructing an optimal hyperplane that separates the members from the nonmembers of the class. For linearly nonseparable data, Kernel functions are used to map data to a higher dimensional space and there the optimal hyperplane is found. This paper works with different SVMs based on radial basis and polynomial kernels, and their performances are compared.