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                                                                                    <journal-title>Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2636-8129</issn>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.35377/saucis...1493368</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Software Testing, Verification and Validation</subject>
                                                            <subject>Software Engineering (Other)</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Yazılım Testi, Doğrulama ve Validasyon</subject>
                                                            <subject>Yazılım Mühendisliği (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                                                            <article-title>Ensemble-Based Alzheimer&#039;s Disease Classification Using Features Extracted from Hog Descriptor and Pre-trained Models</article-title>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-2806</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Muzoglu</surname>
                                    <given-names>Nedim</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Hamidiye Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Biyomühendislik Anabilim Dalı</aff>
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                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6753-7887</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Akbacak</surname>
                                    <given-names>Enver</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>FENERBAHÇE ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20241231">
                    <day>12</day>
                    <month>31</month>
                    <year>2024</year>
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                                        <volume>7</volume>
                                        <issue>3</issue>
                                        <fpage>416</fpage>
                                        <lpage>426</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20240531">
                        <day>05</day>
                        <month>31</month>
                        <year>2024</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20240930">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>30</month>
                        <year>2024</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2018, Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
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                                                                                                                        <abstract><p>Alzheimer&#039;s Disease is the most common type of dementia and is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease. The disease worsens over time, and the patient becomes bedridden, unable to move or understand what is happening around him. The main concern of medicine is to slow down the progression of the disease for which no treatment has yet been developed. Artificial intelligence studies have achieved significant success in detecting many diseases. In this study, an artificial intelligence-based approach that uses MR images of the early stage of Alzheimer&#039;s Disease to detect the disease at an early stage is presented. Initially, a new dataset was created through the application of the fuzzy technique, thereby expanding the feature space. Then, an ensemble learning-based hybrid deep learning model was developed to reduce the misclassification rate for all classes. The features derived from the inception module, residual modules, and histogram of oriented gradients descriptor   are subjected to classification through bagging and boosting algorithms. The proposed model has surpassed many state-of-the-art studies by achieving a high success rate of 99.60% in detecting Alzheimer&#039;s disease in its early stages.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Alzheimer disease</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Hog features</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Imbalance dataset</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Bagging and boosting</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Fuzzy image enhancement</kwd>
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