[Characteristics of wideband tympanometry in patients with Ménière's disease based on neutral network].

Objective

To construct a prediction model for Ménière's disease based on neural network and evaluate its prediction ability.

Methods

Sixty-four patients with Ménière's disease underwent gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of inner ear which showed endolymphatic hydrops. Meanwhile, 40 healthy adults were enrolled as controls. The database of wideband tympanometry of patients and control subjects was analyzed, and the neural network model was established by MATLAB 2021a software. The prediction ability of the model was evaluated by accuracy, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, the Youden index, sensitivity, specificity, receiver operating characteristic curve and area under curve （AUC）.

Results

A feedforward network model was built with a single hidden layer to predict Ménière's disease with wideband tympanometry. There were 104 features in the input layer, 13 neuron nodes in the hidden layer and 1 output neuron in the output layer. The accuracy of the model was 83.2%, the positive predictive value was 80.7%, the negative predictive value was 84.3%, the sensitivity was 76.5%, the specificity was 83.7%, the Youden index was 0.602, and the AUC was 0.855.

Conclusion

Based on neural network, the prediction model of Ménière's disease with high accuracy was constructed according to the results of wideband tympanometry, which provided reference for the diagnose of Ménière's disease.