Performance of dyslexia dataset for machine learning algorithms

Abstract

Learning disability is a condition usual amongst most populace due to poor phonological capability in humans making them impaired. One such neurological disorder is developmental dyslexia, a lack of reading and writing skills leading to difficulty in school education. The essential causes of developmental dyslexia are the consumption of more drug treatments during pregnancy, the over-the-counter purchase of medicines for minor ailments without the recommendation of physicians, and uncared-for head accidents during early life. The occurrence of this trouble is acute in India. Attempts were made by many to detect dyslexic children to reduce the intensity of this hassle. In this proposed effort, machine learning is used to locate significant styles characterizing people using EEG samples. A dataset is used for examination of developmental dyslexia, and classification is done using K nearest neighbor (KNN), decision tree, linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and support vector machine (SVM) to evaluate the performance. This piece of research work is done on MATLAB to provide results on simulation with classification accuracy of 90.76% for SVM, sensitivity of 89% for SVM, and LDA with 91.89% specificity for SVM providing optimum yield.