Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems Research Article Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System Shahan Yamin Siddiqui1,2,*, Syed Anwar Hussnain1, Abdul Hannan Siddiqui3, Rimsha Ghufran4, Muhammad Saleem Khan1, Muhammad Sohail Irshad2, Abdul Hannan Khan2 1School of Computer Science, National College of Business Administration & Economics, Lahore, Pakistan 2Department of Computer Science, Minhaj University, Lahore, Pakistan 3Cavan General Hospital Lisdaran, Cavan, Ireland 4Allied Hospital Faisalabad, Pakistan Abstract The adroit system is frequently used in artificial intelligence in medicine (AIM). They comprise medical information about a dedicated task and prone to purpose with data from case studies to produce lucid results. Though there are many irregularities, the information with an adroit network is derived with a set of expert rules to produce accurate results. Arthritis is the stiffness of one or more joints and about three fourth of the victims are suffering from it. Late detection of that chronic disease may cause the severity of the sickness at greater risk. So the idea is to contemplate a mechanism for the detection of arthritis using an adaptive hierarchical Mamdani fuzzy expert system (DA-AH-MFES). It is a befitting source to process ambiguity and inaccuracy. Physical and some medical parameters with the expertise of doctors can be mapped using MFES. The ability of MFES completely depends on the rules which are finalized by a discussion with an expert. The expert system has eight input variables at layer-I and four input variables at layer-II. At layer-I input variables are rest pain, morning stiffness, body pain, joint infection, swelling, redness, past injury and age that detects output condition of arthritis to be normal, infection and/or other problem. The further input variables of layer-II are RF, ANA, HLA-B27, ANTI-CCP that determine the output condition of arthritis. The performance of proposed Diagnose arthritis disease using an adaptive hierarchical mamdani fuzzy expert system is evaluated with expert observations of Cavan General Hospital Lisdaran, Cavan, Ireland and Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. The accuracy of the expert system (DA- AH-MFES) is 95.6%. Keywords: Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, DA, MFES, DA-AH, MFES Received on 27 September 2019, accepted on 01 November 2019, published on 18 November 2019 Copyright © 2019 Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. doi: 10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.161439 *Corresponding author. Email: engr.shahansiddiqui@gmail.com 1. Introduction Arthritis is the stiffness of one or more than one of your joints. Normally it is considered that if it influences old people but it can attack any age person. It is a chronic disease and a term that includes a group of disorders that affect joints and muscles [1]. Arthritis is a lifelong disorder and approximately three fourth of the sufferers are tormented by it; if it remains undiagnosed it may also cause the severances of the disorder [2, 3]. There are two major infections of arthritis; the first one is osteoarthritis when osteoarthritis infection attacks the person's joints cartilage becomes indentation on the surface, difficult and brittle. The bone below the cartilage get thickens and also broadens out, the amount of lubrication liquid of joints decreases. In a few instances, bony outgrowths may additionally shape at the outer edges of the joint, making 1 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 the joint seem tender. Due to osteoarthritis infection sufferer feels severe pain during movement [4]. The second type of arthritis infection is rheumatoid, in this infection membrane of joints swollen. Common symptoms of that infection feel by sufferer are stiffness, body temperature and redness. So to live a happy and healthy life it is very important to diagnose and cure that infection on time. If it remains undiagnosed in sufferer or late-diagnosed it may cause many other problems for sufferer [5]. Different expert systems are used in artificial intelligence in medical field to diagnose and cure different diseases. In this paper fuzzy logic controller is used to design an arthritis disease diagnose system. It is a very good tool that deals with uncertainty and imprecision. It is widely used in artificial intelligence to diagnose different diseases with high accuracy [6, 7, 8]. In this article proposed a fuzzy based intelligent system that will be able to diagnose arthritis at its early stage. The proposed system contains two layers to detect and ensure sufferer disease. Few physical parameters are used at layer-I to know about the type of infection sufferer has, if layer-I confirms that sufferer has arthritis infection then layer-II become an active layer. On layer-II few medical parameters will be used to diagnose the type of arthritis infection and also the stage of that infection. The above- explained process to diagnose arthritis is performed with the recommendation of medical experts in any sufferer. 2. Literature Review Arthritis is an ailment, Phrase ‘arthritis’ precisely way tenderness of the joints. The perceived and the existent studies prove that arthritis isn't always a diagnosis in itself. It is a widespread term that mentors us that something is incorrect [9, 10]. The recent researches have used the fuzzy inference system model to diagnosis arthritis based on some physical symptoms and medical tests. The most promising controller known as fuzzy logic that determines membership functions with decides rules about diagnosis results. The designed controller diagnosed arthritis in a single layer by combining different physical and medical parameters. Parameters involved and employed showed a different level of accuracy. The proposed model of that team used physical parameters like body pain and redness and medical parameters rheumatoid Factor (RF) and anti- cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (ANTI-CCP). It shows accuracy between 8% – 82% [11, 12, 13]. Different causes which are considered baseline for arthritis disease. Worldwide research of his team observed fifty confirmed patients of rheumatoid arthritis having age twenty to sixty to know about common symptoms for future sufferers. They ensured in work that a common symptom that was present in sufferers and not in healthy subjects was the automated nervous system. Due to the presence of that symptoms sufferer does not feel well and does not communicate with others which leads to a short communication problem in the sufferer [14, 15]. Although there are other infections of arthritis that exists but most Common type of arthritis that is rheumatoid arthritis, prolonging the type Rheumatoid Arthritis, when and how it attacks the person, along with causes based on genetic symptoms, along with the symptoms, the medical remedies are also been discussed in the limelight of the arthritis [16]. Taking into account the vivid types of arthritis, osteoarthritis ailment, wear and tear infection leads to damage of cartilage and slowly cartilage damage fully and the person unable to move and work properly. The type osteoarthritis is considered to be very complex and it is a totally cartilage driven problem so it is very important to diagnose it immediately and cure it on time [17]. To analyze the origin of Rheumatoid Arthritis Smolen utilized dataset from different areas and discussed with arthritics experts. Treat to target (T2T) is used by experts of the Smolen team to cure Rheumatoid Arthritis [18]. The comprehensive discussion leads to the relation between depression and chronic rheumatoid arthritis. They utilized more than a hundred patient dataset including 77% males and 23% females. The result of the study of those patients reveals that more than 40% of the patient including both genders has some degree of depression present in their minds. The suggestions necessitate that it's miles important for treating Rheumatoid Arthritis victims to screen them for melancholy and manipulate it respectively [19]. The most alarming ailments have made the researches to approach the basic plain-film diagnosis and differential diagnosis of the arthritides and analysis of which part of the joint is involved, and works through a logical sequence to reach a final ailment [20]. A different kind of methodology has provided medical researches with a different guideline to diagnose and reduce rheumatoid arthritis. The two targeted types of sufferers have been implicate in paper and recommended different medications as per the severity of an ailment. The study of that paper reveals that although we cannot recommend it to all patients it may help us in more than half cases to reduce the infection of rheumatoid arthritis [21]. Computational Intelligence approaches like Fuzzy system [22,23], Neural Network [24], Swarm Intelligence [25] & Evolutionary Computing [26] like Genetic Algorithm [27, 28], DE, Island GA [29], Island DE [29,30] are strong candidate solution in the field of smart city [31, 32] and smart health [34,35,36,37] etc. 3. Related Work Fuzzy Based System Model Our proposed Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Expert System (DA-AH- MFES) is described in this area. Figure 1 determines the evolution of the proposed DA-AH-MFES hierarchical approach. The DA-AH-MFES based expert System includes two layers as appeared in figure 2. In layer-I examine the Arthritis (Negative/Positive) using eight input Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al. 2 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 variables age, morning-stiffness, body-pain, joint- infection, rest-pain, redness, swelling, past-injury and in layer-2 examine the arthritis (no/acute arthritis/chronic arthritis) using four input variables RF, ANA, HLA-B27, Anti-CCP as performed in figure 3 and figure 4 using MATLAB R2019a tool [33]. Figure 1. Proposed DA-AH-MFES based Expert System Methodology Figure 2. Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System 3 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Figure 3. Layer-1 of Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System using MATLAB R2019a tool Figure 4. Layer-2 of Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System using MATLAB R2019a tool The values of these parameters are also used to build up a lookup table given in Table-1 to evaluate the type of infection. The proposed automated Diagnosis Arthritis using mamdani inference based expert system can be expressed in mathematically regarding t-norm as Proposed DA-AH-MFES for Layer-1 can be written mathematically as μDIAGNOSIS-ARTHRITIS,L-1 (da-infection) = t [μAGE (age) , μMORNING-STIFFNESS (ms) , μBODY-PAIN (bp) , μJOINT-INFECTION (ji), μDIAGNOSIS- ARTHRITIS,L-1 (da-infection) = t [μAGE (age) , μMORNING-STIFFNESS (ms) , μBODY-PAIN (bp) , μJOINT-INFECTION (ji), μDIAGNOSIS- ARTHRITIS,LA-1 (da-infection) = min [μAGE (age) , μMORNING-STIFFNESS (ms) , μBODY-PAIN (bp) , μJOINT-INFECTION (ji), μSWELLING (sw), μPAST-INUJURY (pi), μREST-PAIN (rp), μREDNESS (rn)] & Proposed DA-AH-MFES for Layer-2 can be written mathematically as Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al. 4 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 μDIAGNOSIS-ARTHRITIS,L-2 (da) = t [μDI (di), μRF (rf) , μANA (ana) , μHLA-B27 (hla) , μANTI-CCP (ac)] μDIAGNOSIS-ARTHRITIS,L-2 (da) = min [μDI (di), μRF (rf) , μANA (ana) , μHLA-B27 (hla) , μANTI-CCP (ac)] 3.1 Input Variables Proposed system Fuzzy input variables are numerical values that are used to diagnose arthritis. In this research, both layers used a total of twelve different kinds of input variables. Eight variables are used at layer-I and the remaining four variables are used at layers-II. The details of these input and output variables along with their ranges are shown in table 1, table 2 and table 3. Table 1. Layer-I input variables with medical ranges of proposed DA-AH-MFES expert system Sr # Input Parameters Medical Ranges Semantic Sign 1 AGE LT < 18 Child B/W 15 - 40 Young GT > 37 Old 2 MORNING STIFFNESS LT < 0.2 No Pain B/W 0.1 - 0.5 Minimum GT > 0.4 Maximum 3 BODY PAIN LT < 17 No Pain B/W 10 – 43 Minimum GT > 35 Maximum 4 JOINT INFECTION LT < 7 No B/W 4 – 45 Minimum GT > 42 Maximum 5 SWELLING LT < 13 No B/W 8 – 45 Minimum GT > 40 Maximum 6 REDNESS LT < 13 No B/W 8 – 45 Low GT > 40 Maximum 7 PAST INJURY LT < 15 No B/W 7 – 42 Minimum GT > 35 Maximum 8 REST PAIN LT < 0.20 No Pain B/W 0.1 - 3.5 Minimum GT > 3.4 Maximum Table 2. Layer-II input variables with medical ranges of proposed DA-AH-MFES expert system Sr # Input Parameters Ranges Semantic Sign 1 Rheumatoid Factor (RF) LT < 15 No B/W 7 – 42 Minimum GT > 35 Maximum 2 Antinuclear antibody (ANA) LT < 0.9 Negative GT > 0.5 Positive 3 HLA-B27 LT < 0.9 Negative GT > 0.5 Positive 4 ANTI-CCP LT <15 No B/W 7-50 Minimum GT > 40 Maximum 3.2 Output Variables In this research, the multilayered mechanism is proposed to diagnose the Arthritis. If the layer-I output is positive then layer-II is activated. Output variables for both layers are shown in table 3. Table 3. Layer-I & Layer-II output variables of proposed DA-AH-MFES expert system Sr # Layers Output Variables Semantic Sign 1 Layer-I Diagnose infection Negative Positive 2 Layer-II DA-AH- MFES No Arthritis Acute Arthritis Chronic Arthritis 3.3 Membership Functions Membership functions of the proposed automated DA- AH-MFES Adroit System give the curve value except for truth values and also dispense a mathematical form of fuzzy logic that propose numerical values of both input and output variables. The membership function of this proposed automated DA-AH-MFES adroit system is shown in table 4, table 5 and table 6. These membership functions are established with the help of Cavan General Hospital Lisdaran, Cavan, Ireland and Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Pakistan medical experts. Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System 5 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 https://www.healthline.com/health/rheumatoid-factor-rf https://www.healthline.com/health/rheumatoid-factor-rf Table 4. Mathematical & Graphical MF of Layer-1 Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System Input variables Input Membership Function Sample MF Screenshot Age = A Morning Stiffness = ms Body Pain =bp Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al. 6 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Joint Infection =ji Swelling= Sw Redness= rn Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System 7 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Past Injury= pi Rest Pain= rp Table 5. Mathematical & Graphical MF of Layer-2 Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System Input variables Input Membership Function Sample MF Screenshot Diagnose Arthritis Infection-Layer 1= DI Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al. 8 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Rheumatoid Factor = rf Antinuclear antibody = ANA HLA-B27 =hla Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide = Anti-CCP Table 6. Mathematical & Graphical MF of Layer-1 & Layer-2 Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System Output variables Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System 9 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Input Membership Function Sample MF Screenshot Diagnos Arthritis - Layer 1= da-layer1 Diagnos Arthritis - Layer 2= da-layer2 3.4 Rules-Base Lookup Table For the proposed DA-AH-MFES rules table, which usually relies on the expert system comprises of 6561 input and output rules for layer 1 and 36 input and output rules for layer 2. A few of these input and output rules for layer 1 and layer 2 are presented in table 7 and table 8 respectively. The rule table is generally generated to the assistance of medical experts from the Orthopedic department of Cavan General Hospital Lisdaran, Cavan, Ireland and Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. Table 7. Lookup table of Layer –I for DA-AH-MFES Expert System Rules Age Mornin g Stiffnes s Body Pain Joint Infectio n Swelling Past Injury Rest Pain Redness Results 1 Child No No No No No No No Negative 2 Child Min Min No Min Min No No 3 Young Min Min No No No No Max 4 Young Max No No Min Min No No 5 Old No Min Min No No Min No 6 Old Max No No Min No Min No 7 Child Min No No Min Min Min Min Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al. 10 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Rules Age Mornin g Stiffnes s Body Pain Joint Infectio n Swelling Past Injury Rest Pain Redness Results 8 Young No Max Max Max Min Min Max Positive 9 Old Min Max Max Max Min Min Max 10 Old Max Min Max Min Max Max Min 11 Young Max Max Max Min Min Max Min 12 Old Max Max Max Max Max Max Max Table 8. Lookup Table of Layer –II for DA-AH-MFES Expert System Rules DI RF ANA HLA-B27 ANTI-CCP Output 1 Positive No Negative Negative No No Arthritis 2 Positive Minimum Negative Negative No 3 Positive No Positive Negative No 4 Positive No Negative Positive No 5 Positive No Positive Positive Minimum Acute Arthritis 6 Positive Minimum Positve Negative Minimum 7 Positive Maximum Positive Negative No 8 Positive Minimum Negative Positive Minimum 9 Positive Minimum Negative Negative Maximum Chronic Arthritis 10 Positive Maximum Negative Positive Minimum 11 Negative Maximum Positive Positive Minimum 12 Negative Maximum Positive Positive Maximum Rule-Based Rules are fundamental for input and output variables for both layers. The accomplishment of an Expert system constructs based on input an output rules. All rules for the proposed DA-AH-MFES appeared in figure 5. Inference Engine Inference Engine is the essential constituent of any decision based self-ruling framework. In this exposition of DA-AH-MFES, the Inference model is used in Layer I and Layer II. Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System 11 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Figure 5. Rules-based system for DA-AH-MFES Adroit System De-Fuzzifier De-Fuzzifier is one of the fundamental sections of any decision based self-governing framework. There are different sorts of defuzzifier. In this examination centroid type of De-fuzzifier is used. Figure 6 of all sections 6a-6d, demonstrates the De-fuzzifier graphical representation of both layers administers in DA-AH-MFES. Fig.6a. Rule Surface for RF and HLA-B27 Fig. 6b. Rule Surface for Anti-CCP and HLA-B27 Shahan Yamin Siddiqui et al. 12 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Fig. 6c. Rule Surface for RF and ANA Fig. 6d. Rule Surface for Anti-CCP and RF Figure 6. De-Fuzzifier graphical illustrations of Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System In Figure.6a blue color reperent the no arthritis , green color represent the acute arthritis and yellow color represent the chronic arthritis. The Arthritis (regarding Probability) based on Rheumatoid Factor and HLA-B27. Different colors in the Surface region present the stages of Arthritis. It is also observed that if Rheumatoid Factor is no (with the range between 0-15) and HLA-B27 less than 0.9 then the probability of arthritis is 0 that it may be any other types of arthritis. It is also observed that if the costs of Rheumatoid Factor are more the 35 its mean maximum and amounts of HLA-B27 are less the 0.9, the value of Arthritis is 80% that means it is no & chronic arthritis. Correspondingly, remaining figures 6b-6d present workmanship results by winning distinctive info parameter values. The surface district speaks to likelihood values by two information factors from given twelve input variables. The arthritis results are the blend of in any event three information factors. 4. Simulation and Results MATLAB R2019a [33] tool is used for representing, simulated, algorithm development, prototyping, and many other fields. This tool is efficient for software designing, data analysis, outset, and calculations. For the simulation of results, twelve inputs on both layers one output of diagnosing arthritis are used which are shown in figures 7, 8 and 9. Figure 7. Lookup diagram of Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System for No- Arthrists Diagnosis of Arthritis Using Adaptive Hierarchical Mamdani Fuzzy Type-1 Expert System 13 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems 03 2020 - 05 2020 | Volume 7 | Issue 26 | e2 Figure 8. Lookup diagram of Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System for Acute Arthritis Figure 9. Lookup diagram of Proposed DA-AH-MFES Expert System for Chronic Arthritis Figure 7 shows, If μRHEUMATOID-FACTOR (rf) is considered no, μANA (ana) is negative, μHLA-B27 (hla) is positive, μANTI- CCP (ccp) is no, then Outcome for μDA-LAYER2 (da-l2) is No arthritis. Figure 8 shows, If μRHEUMATOID-FACTOR (rf) is considered minimum, μANA (ana) is positive, μHLA-B27 (hla) is positive, μANTI-CCP (ccp) is minimum, then Outcome for μDA-LAYER2 (da-l2) is acute arthritis. Figure 9 shows, If μRHEUMATOID-FACTOR (rf) is considered maximum, μANA (ana) is positive, μHLA-B27 (hla) is positive, μANTI-CCP (ccp) is maximum, then Outcome for μDA-LAYER2 (da-l2) is chronic arthritis. The viability of the proposed method has sporadically kept an eye on many records. The Proposed DA-AH- MFES expert system gives definite outcomes for all stages, and just at acute arthritis, it might achieve some slight errors. Figure 10 speaks to the precision rate of DA- AH-MFES for the detection of arthritis. The proposed framework demonstrates the exactness rate for no arthritis is 96.20 percent, for acute arthritis is 93.60 percent and for chronic arthritis is 97 percent. The overall precision of the proposed DA-AH-MFES is 95.60 percent and the miss rate of the proposed DA-AH-MFES turns out to be 4.40 percent. 5. Conclusion The basic point of convergence of our examination is to devise an expert system to examine arthritis by reports retrieved from the Cavan General Hospital Lisdaran, Cavan, Ireland and Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. This expert system is principal and simpler to use for both Medical specialists and non-specialists. This research engages orthopedic experts, surgeons and lab technicians for the judgment of the propose DA-AH-MFES expert system performance. Research obtained through the fuzzy logic model is critically analyzed in the supervision of orthopedic experts, surgeons and lab technicians. 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