Research Article

The Construction of Support Vector Machine Classifier Using the Firefly Algorithm

Table 5

Performance evaluation for each disease group.

Method usedSensitivity (%)Specificity (%)False negative rate (%)Accuracy (%)

Method 1: firefly-SVM based OAA-FSVM2.592.50 ± 1.37
() Normal 93.10 90.00
() Inflammation tendon 93.10 96.42
() Calcific tendon 96.67 93.10
() Supraspinatus tear100.00100.00

Method 2: original OAA-FSVM trained by LIBSVM3.3389.10 ± 2.49
() Normal 83.33 95.56
() Inflammation tendon 86.67 95.56
() Calcific tendon 90.00 96.67
() Supraspinatus tear100.00100.00