A proposed approach for diabetes diagnosis using neuro-fuzzy technique

Abstract

Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by a decrease in pancreatic insulin production. The immune system will be harmed due to this condition, which will raise blood sugar levels. However, early detection of diabetes enables patients to begin treatment on time, therefore reducing or eliminating the risk of severe consequences. One of the most significant challenges in the healthcare unit is disease diagnosis. Traditional techniques of disease diagnosis are manual and prone to inaccuracy. This paper proposed an approach for diagnosing diabetes using the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) based on Pima Indians diabetes dataset (PIDD). The three stages of the proposed approach are pre-processing classification and evaluation. Normalization, imputation, and anomaly detection are part of the pre-processing stage. The pre-processing was done by normalizing the data, replacing the missing values, and using the local outlier factor (LOF) technique. In the classification stage, ANFIS classifiers were trained using the hybrid learning algorithm of the neural network. Finally, the evaluation procedures use the last stage’s sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy metrics. The obtained classification accuracy was 92.77%, and it seemed rather promising compared to the other classification applications for this topic found in the literature.