A discrete salp swarm algorithm with weights and Lévy flights: application for Parkinson's disease detection

A new hybrid algorithm named discrete salp swarm algorithm that integrates effectiveness of weights, Lévy flights, and an excellent classifier, support vector machine (SVM), has been proposed to predict Parkinson's disease. In the proposed algorithm, salp swarm algorithm (SSA) is used as a feature selection tool, which targets to reduce the noise in features of the speech PD dataset to improve the SVM classifier's prediction accuracy. The efficacy and usefulness of the proposed discrete salp swarm algorithm with Lévy flights have been meticulously assessed against the speech PD dataset in terms of G-mean, accuracy, F-measure, specificity, sensitivity, and precision measures. DWLSSA has achieved values of the measures, 97.76%, 98.75%, 98.77%, 97.37%, 98.15%, and 99.39% respectively. Comparison of DWLSSA with other nature inspired algorithms applied to predict Parkinson’s shows that the proposed DWLSSA performs better. It can be also said that DWLSSA can be an alternative for solving the NP-hard problems