Diabetes Prediction Using Machine Learning: A Detailed Insight

Diabetes often referred to as Diabetes mellitus is a general, continuing and deadly syndrome occurring all over the world. It is characterized by hyperglycemia which occurs due to abnormal insulin secretion which results in an irregular rise of glucose level in the blood. It is affecting numerous people all over the world. Diabetes remained untreated over a long period of time, may include complications like premature heart disease and stroke, blindness, limb amputations and kidney failure, making early detection of diabetes mellitus important. Now a days in healthcare, machine learning is used to draw insights from large medical data sets to improve the quality of patient care, improve patient outcomes, enhance operational efficiency and accelerate medical research. In this paper, we have applied different ML algorithms like Logistic Regression, Gaussian Naive Bayes, K-nearest neighbors, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Gradient Boost, AdaBoost and Multi Layered Perceptron using Artificial Neural Network on reduced PIMA Indian Diabetes dataset and provided a detailed performance comparison of the algorithms. From this article readers are expected to gain a detailed insight of different symptoms of diabetes along with their applicability in different ML algorithms for diabetes onset prediction.