PMID- 37673562 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230908 LR - 20231213 IS - 1873-2860 (Electronic) IS - 0933-3657 (Linking) VI - 143 DP - 2023 Sep TI - Monkeypox diagnosis using ensemble classification. PG - 102618 LID - S0933-3657(23)00132-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102618 [doi] AB - The world has recently been exposed to a fierce attack from many viral diseases, such as Covid-19, that exhausted medical systems around the world. Such attack had a negative impact not only on the health status of people or the high death rate, but also had a bad impact on the economic situation, which affected all countries of the world especially the poor and the developing ones. Monkeypox is one of the latest viral diseases that may cause a pandemic in the near future if not dealt and diagnosed with appropriately. This paper provides a new strategy for diagnosing monkeypox, which is called; Accurate Monkeypox Diagnosing Strategy (AMDS). The proposed AMDS consists of two phases, which are; (i) pre-processing and (ii) classification. During the pre-processing phase, the most effective feature are selected using Binary Tiki-Taka Algorithm (BTTA). On the other hand, in the classification phase, ensemble classification is used for diagnosing new cases, which combines evidence from three different new classifiers, namely; (a) Layered K-Nearest Neighbors (LKNN), (b) Statistical Naive Bayes (SNB), and (c) Deep Learning Classifier (DLC). Moreover, the decisions of the proposed classifiers are merged in a new voting scheme called Fuzzified Voting Scheme (FVS). AMDS has been compared against recent diagnostic strategies. Experimental results have proven that AMDS outperforms other monkeypox diagnostic strategies as it introduces the most accurate diagnosis according to two different datasets. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Rabie, Asmaa H AU - Rabie AH AD - Computer Engineering and Systems Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. FAU - Saleh, Ahmed I AU - Saleh AI AD - Computer Engineering and Systems Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Electronic address: aisaleh@yahoo.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230701 PL - Netherlands TA - Artif Intell Med JT - Artificial intelligence in medicine JID - 8915031 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Mpox (monkeypox)/diagnosis MH - Bayes Theorem MH - *COVID-19/diagnosis MH - Algorithms MH - Cluster Analysis MH - COVID-19 Testing OTO - NOTNLM OT - Classification OT - Diagnosis OT - Feature selection OT - Monkeypox OT - Tiki-Taka Algorithm COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/09/07 00:41 MHDA- 2023/09/08 06:43 CRDT- 2023/09/06 20:58 PHST- 2022/12/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/05/23 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/06/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/08 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/07 00:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/06 20:58 [entrez] AID - S0933-3657(23)00132-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102618 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Artif Intell Med. 2023 Sep;143:102618. doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102618. Epub 2023 Jul 1.