Yuan Zhou

Work place: Department of IMSE, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA

E-mail: yuan.zhou@uta.edu

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Research Interests: Engineering

Biography

Yuan Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering at UT-Arlington, specializing in complex adaptive system modeling, agent-based and discrete-event simulation, performance measurement and process improvement. She received a B.S. Degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2004, and a Ph.D. Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), and City of Arlington. Dr. Zhou is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS).  She is currently the Vice President of DFW IISE professional chapter.

Author Articles
Wart Treatment Decision Support Using Support Vector Machine

By Md. Mamunur Rahman Yuan Zhou Shouyi Wang Jamie Rogers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2020.01.01, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2020

Warts are noncancerous benign tumors caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The success rates of cryotherapy and immunotherapy, two common treatment methods for cutaneous warts, are 44% and 72%, respectively. The treatment methods, therefore, fail to cure a significant percentage of the patients. This study aims to develop a reliable machine learning model to accurately predict the success of immunotherapy and cryotherapy for individual patients based on their demographic and clinical characteristics. We employed support vector machine (SVM) classifier utilizing a dataset of 180 patients who were suffering from various types of warts and received treatment either by immunotherapy or cryotherapy. To balance the minority class, we utilized three different oversampling methods- synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE), borderline-SMOTE, and adaptive synthetic (ADASYN) sampling. F-score along with sequential backward selection (SBS) algorithm were utilized to extract the best set of features. For the immunotherapy treatment method, SVM with radial basis function (RBF) kernel obtained an overall classification accuracy of 94.6% (sensitivity = 96.0%, specificity = 89.5%), and for the cryotherapy treatment method, SVM with polynomial kernel obtained an overall classification accuracy of 95.9% (sensitivity = 94.3%, specificity = 97.4%). The obtained results are competitive and comparable with the congeneric research works available in the literature, especially for the immunotherapy treatment method, we obtained 4.6% higher accuracy compared to the existing works. The developed methodology could potentially assist the dermatologists as a decision support tool by predicting the success of every unique patient before starting the treatment process.

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