Multiple-Site Hemodynamic Analysis of Doppler Ultrasound with an Adaptive Color Relation Classifier for Arteriovenous Access Occlusion Evaluation

Table 3

Comparison of performances between the proposed method and artificial neural network (ANN).

Task	Method
	CRA	ANN and SVM
Network structure	Hybrid decision-making and network structure	Multilayer network
Training data	Yes	Yes
	Minor	Major
Feature selection	Hemodynamic analysis with dimensionless numbers	Time-frequency analysis and Burg method [6, 7, 9, 10]
Inference/learning algorithm	PSO algorithm [20, 21]	(i) Least mean square algorithm
		(ii) Gradient descent method
Parameter assignment	Yes	Yes
	Minor	Major
Adjustable parameter	Yes	Yes
	Minor	Major
Iteration training	Yes	Yes
Convergent condition	Yes	Yes