Neuro-fuzzy ellipsoid basis function multiple classifier for diagnosis of urinary tract infections

Recently, the use of smell in clinical diagnosis has been rediscovered due to major advances in odour sensing technology and artificial intelligence. Urinary tract infections are a serious health problem producing significant morbidity in a vast number of people each year. A newly developed "artificial nose" based on chemoresistive sensors has been employed to identify in vivo urine samples from 45 patients with suspected uncomplicated UTI who were scheduled for micro-biological analysis in a UK Health Laboratory environment. An intelligent model consisting of an odour generation mechanism, rapid volatile delivery and recovery system, and a classifier system based on artificial based techniques has been developed. The implementation of an advanced hybrid neuro-fuzzy scheme and the concept of fusion of multiple classifiers dedicated to specific feature parameters has been also adopted in this study. The experimental results confirm the validity of the presented methods.