paper19

A.M. Adeshina, G.C. Ogwume

Keywords:Diabetes Mellitus, Machine Learning, K-Nearest Neighbor, Random Forest, Logistic Regression

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic and one of the deadliest diseases. Diabetes disease increases the risk of long-term
complications, including heart diseases and kidney failures, among others. Undoubtedly, Diabetes Mellitus patients may
live longer and lead healthier lives if the disease is detected early. Over the years, several efforts have been on more
accurate and early detection procedures to safe patients of Diabetes Mellitus. Interestingly, with the applications of
Information Technology to the disease diagnoses and therapy managements, more attention has been on using machine
learning in the predictions and early detection of Diabetes Mellitus. Unfortunately, determining the most appropriate
machine learning algorithm with the best performance in terms of optimum accuracy still remains a challenge. The study
proposes a framework for Diabetes Mellitus detection using Machine Learning Algorithms. The proposed framework was
evaluated using K-nearest neighbor (KNN), Random Forest (RF), and Logistic Regression (LR). Extensive experiments
were conducted to analyze the performance of the framework focusing on four distinct different clinical datasets. To
ensure robust, web compatible framework, Python and its popular data science related packages, Pandas, Numpy,
Seaborn, Matplotlib and Pickle were used for the implementation. Significantly, using the standard datasets obtained
from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Disease, Random Forest was able to predict Diabetes Mellitus in the
datasets with the best accuracy of 93.4 %.