Least-Square Support Vector Machine and Wavelet Selection for Hearing Loss Identification
- Chaosheng Tang1, Deepak Ranjan Nayak2, Shuihua Wang1,3,4,*
1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000, China
2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, 302017, India
3 School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
4 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author: Shuihua Wang. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Recent Advances on Deep Learning for Medical Signal Analysis (RADLMSA))
2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, 302017, India
3 School of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
4 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author: Shuihua Wang. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Recent Advances on Deep Learning for Medical Signal Analysis (RADLMSA))
Received 17 April 2020; Accepted 30 June 2020; Issue published 18 September 2020
Abstract
Hearing loss (HL) is a kind of common illness, which can significantly reduce the quality of life. For example, HL often results in mishearing,
misunderstanding, and communication problems. Therefore, it is necessary
to provide early diagnosis and timely treatment for HL. This study investigated
the advantages and disadvantages of three classical machine learning
methods: multilayer perceptron (MLP), support vector machine (SVM), and
least-square support vector machine (LS-SVM) approach and made a further
optimization of the LS-SVM model via wavelet entropy. The investigation
illustrated that themultilayer perceptron is a shallowneural network,while the
least square support vector machine uses hinge loss function and least-square
optimization method. Besides, a wavelet selection method was proposed, and
we found db4 can achieve the best results. The experiments showed that
the LS-SVM method can identify the hearing loss disease with an overall
accuracy of three classes as 84.89 ± 1.77, which is superior to SVM and MLP.
The results show that the least-square support vector machine is effective in
hearing loss identification.
Keywords
Hearing loss; wavelet entropy; multilayer perceptron; least square support vector machine
Cite This Article
Tang, C., Nayak, D. R., Wang, S. (2020). Least-Square Support Vector Machine and Wavelet Selection for Hearing Loss Identification. CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 125(1), 299–313.
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