Research Article

String Grammar Unsupervised Possibilistic Fuzzy C-Medians for Gait Pattern Classification in Patients with Neurodegenerative Diseases

Table 7

Comparison of the proposed method with the existing methods.

MethodClassification error rate (%)

ALS versus Healthy (2-class problem)
Our proposed method96.88±6.25
Symbolic entropy [7]82
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (All-training-all-testing) [8]93.1
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (Leave-one-out) [8]89.66
Least squares support vector machine (Leave-one-out) [9]82.8
Radial basis function (RBF) support vector machines [10]96.79
Meta-classifier [11]96.1326

HD versus Healthy (2-class problem)
Our proposed method97.22±5.56
Symbolic entropy [7]95
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (All-training-all-testing) [8]100
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (Leave-one-out) [8]83.33
Radial basis function (RBF) support vector machines [10]90.23
Meta-classifier [11]88.674

PD versus Healthy (2-class problem)
Our proposed method96.43±7.14
Symbolic entropy [7]89
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (All-training-all-testing) [8]100
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks (Leave-one-out) [8]87.1
Radial basis function (RBF) support vector machines [10]89.33
Meta-classifier [11]90.3581

NDDs versus Healthy (4-class problem)
Our proposed method98.44±3.13
Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks [8]93.75
K classifier [12]99.17
DECORATE [12]94.69
Random Forest [12]94.69
Radial basis function (RBF) support vector machines [10]90.63