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MATLAB for Machine Learning

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pavan Kumar Kolluru
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MATLAB for Machine Learning

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pavan Kumar Kolluru

Overview of this book

MATLAB is the language of choice for many researchers and mathematics experts for machine learning. This book will help you build a foundation in machine learning using MATLAB for beginners. You’ll start by getting your system ready with t he MATLAB environment for machine learning and you’ll see how to easily interact with the Matlab workspace. We’ll then move on to data cleansing, mining and analyzing various data types in machine learning and you’ll see how to display data values on a plot. Next, you’ll get to know about the different types of regression techniques and how to apply them to your data using the MATLAB functions. You’ll understand the basic concepts of neural networks and perform data fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering analysis. Finally, you’ll explore feature selection and extraction techniques for dimensionality reduction for performance improvement. At the end of the book, you will learn to put it all together into real-world cases covering major machine learning algorithms and be comfortable in performing machine learning with MATLAB.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
8
Improving the Performance of the Machine Learning Model - Dimensionality Reduction

Classifying thyroid disease with a neural network


Thyroid activity has many effects in our body. For example, the thyroid gland regulates metabolism and controls very important functions such as heart rate, nervous system development, body growth, muscular strength, sexual function, and more. Because of the central role of the thyroid in regulating bodily metabolism, when this gland does not work properly, the whole body suffers.

The causes of thyroid dysfunction can be many. First of all, your thyroid may increase or slow down your activity, producing excess or defective hormones over the actual body needs. These conditions are called hyperthyroidism (that is, an excessive production of thyroid hormones) and hypothyroidism (which is the opposite condition in which there is a deficiency of thyroid hormones).

In this study, we want to create a model that allows us to classify thyroid disease according to patient data. We begin, as always, by getting the data to be analyzed. This time we will...