Using Artificial Neural Network in Diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

This paper focuses on the problem of diagnosing polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which is one of the leading disorders of the female endocrine system. Although the incidence of this syndrome is quite high, physicians and patients still often encounter problems in their detection, as well as with the ineffectiveness of prescribed therapy. For the development of expert system, a database containing following parameters was used: oligoovulation, anovulation, free testosterone, free androgen index (FAI), calculated bioavailable testosterone, and rostendione, dehydroepiandrosterone, ovarian volume, number of follicles, obesity. The presented dataset contains 1000 samples distributed in two categories: (1) heatlhy subjects and (2) subjects with disease. The purpose of the developed system is to classify instances with polycystic ovary syndrome using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The overall performance evaluation of the system resulted with accuracy of 96.1%, sensitivity of 96.8% and specificity of 90% indicating significant potential of ANNs in this field. Since the system predicted a total of 157 positive and 23 negative, this leads us to the result that the sensitivity of our system is 96.8%, specificity 90% and accuracy 96.1%.