A machine-learning method for improving crash injury severity analysis: a case study of work zone crashes in Cairo, Egypt. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yahaya, Mahama; Fan, Wenbo; Fu, Chuanyun; Li, Xiang; Su, Yue; Jiang, Xinguo
• Is Part Of: International journal of injury control and safety promotion. Volume 27:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 266
• Page End: 275
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: crash injury severity -- machine learning -- data sampling -- class noise -- noise filtering; Wounds and injuries -- Prevention -- Periodicals; Wounds and Injuries -- prevention & control -- Periodicals; Consumer Product Safety -- Periodicals; 363.107
• DOI: 10.1080/17457300.2020.1746814
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-7300

Abstract

Abstract: The quality of vehicular collision data is crucial for studying the relationship between injury severity and collision factors. Misclassified injury severity data in the crash dataset, however, may cause inaccurate parameter estimates and consequently lead to biased conclusions and poorly designed countermeasures. This is particularly true for imbalanced data where the number of samples in one class far outnumber the other. To improve the classification performance of the injury severity, the paper presents a robust noise filtering technique to deal with the mislabels in the imbalanced crash dataset using the advanced machine learning algorithms. We examine the state-of-the-art filtering algorithms, including Iterative Noise Filtering based on the Fusion of Classifiers (INFFC), Iterative Partitioning Filter (IPF), and Saturation Filter (SatF). In the case study of Cairo (Egypt), the empirical results show that: (1) the mislabels in crash data significantly influence the injury severity predictions, and (2) the proposed M-IPF filter outperforms its counterparts in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency in eliminating the mislabels in crash data. The test results demonstrate the efficacy of the M-IPF in handling the data noise and mitigating the impacts thereof.