A BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK APPROACH FOR PREDICTING KERNICTERUS

Authors

  • FI Amadin DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BENIN, BENIN CITY, EDO STATE, NIGERIA
  • ME Bello DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BENIN, BENIN CITY, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

Keywords:

Jaundice, Kernicterus, Bayesian Belief Network

Abstract

A lot of research have been conducted using expert systems in the diagnosis of neonatal jaundice but none has been conducted on kernicterus. Kernicterus is a complication of neonatal jaundice in which bilirubin accumulates in the grey matter of the brain, causing an irreversible neurological damage. In this paper, a Bayesian belief network was designed for predicting neonatal jaundice. The BBN model has 15 nodes and had 97% and 94% accuracy in classifying neonatal jaundice and kernicterus respectively.

 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v38i2.18

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2019-03-27

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Computer, Telecommunications, Software, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

How to Cite

A BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK APPROACH FOR PREDICTING KERNICTERUS. (2019). Nigerian Journal of Technology, 38(2), 416-421. https://www.nijotech.com/index.php/nijotech/article/view/1985