Citation

Alikhani M, Nedaie A, Ahmadvand A. Safety Sci. 2013; 60: 142-150.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssci.2013.06.008

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Data-mining algorithms have been employed in many classification problems. In this essay, a number of these algorithms will be used for classification of road accidents severity (casualties or damages). The individual classification algorithms used in this study including Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). The above-said classification algorithms have some specific advantages and disadvantages in which features and fields of problems influence on their aptness. During recent years, many studies have been carried out on Ensemble Models in order to achieve better results. In this paper, a hybrid idea of clustering-classification method has been adapted by using k-means and Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) as clustering methods to improve accuracy of classification. The experiments done on the datasets, show that the pre-clustering can improve the accuracy of classification.