IRJET- Machine Learning Classification Algorithms for Predictive Analysis in Healthcare

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Machine Learning Classification Algorithms for Predictive
Analysis in Healthcare
Ms. Manjiri Mahadev Mastoli1, Dr. Urmila R. Pol2, Rahul D. Patil3
1ResearchScholar, Department of Computer Science, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
2Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
3Quality Assurance Engineer, Menon Bearing Ltd, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
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Abstract – Machine LearningandArtificialIntelligence has
gained much attention from researchers in healthcare and
medical sciences. Today volume, velocity, and variety of
healthcare data rapidly increased, therefore there is a need of
an efficient machine learning tool which will enhance
prediction accuracy in healthcare. The main purpose of this
paper is to find the best and most suitable algorithm for
prediction and diagnosis of diseases and application of
machine learning for heathcare systems. This paper also
provides an overview of the data science concepts from data
mining technique to machine learning classification
algorithms.abstract summarizes, in one paragraph (usually),
the major aspects of the entire paper in the following
prescribed sequence.
Key Words: Data Mining Technique, Machine Learning,
Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Heathcare.
1. INTRODUCTION:
The increasingly growing numberofapplicationsofmachine
learning in healthcare allows us to foretaste at a future
where data, analysis, and innovation work hand-in-hand to
help countless patients without them ever realizing it. Soon,
it will be quite common to find ML-based applications
embedded with real-time patient data available from
different healthcare systems in multiple countries, thereby
increasing the efficacy of new treatment optionswhichwere
unavailable before.
Healthcare covers detailed processes of the diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of disease, [1]. The medical
industry in most countries is evolving at a rapid space. The
healthcare industry with rich data as they generate massive
amounts of data, including electronic medical records,
administrative reports and other findings [2].
Health informatics are becoming a very research-intensive
field and the largest consumer of public funds. With the
occurrence of computers and new algorithms, health care
has seen an increase in computer tools and could no longer
ignore these emerging tools. This resulted in uniting of
healthcare and computing to form health informatics.This is
expected to create more efficiency and effectiveness in the
health care system, while at the same time, improve the
quality of healthcare and lower cost. [3]
Machine learning and Deep Learning algorithms will
enhance prediction accuracy of any heathcare problem to a
upper limit as compared to existing researches.
2. MACHINE LEARNING:
Traditionally data mining is a statistical learning approach
and more effective, robust features for data analysis. From
those data, it builds prediction or clustering models. There
are lots of challenges on both pre-processing ofcomplicated
data and domain knowledge expertise. The latest advances
in machine learning technologies provide new effective
paradigms to obtain end-to-end learning machine learning
models from complex data. In this research article,
researchers review the literature on applying machine
learning technologies to advance the health care domain.
As compared to several typical prediction algorithms, the
prediction accuracy of machine learning algorithm reaches
maximum and with a convergencespeed whichisfasterthan
any other disease risk prediction [4]. Machine learning has
resulted in important contributions to a number of
disciplines in current years, withvisionandnatural language
processing [5].
Figure 1: Traditional vs. machine learning approach.
In a traditional approach to data analysis, one starts
with the model as input to the machine. In an machine
learning approach, one starts with the data and
outputs a model that can then be applied to new data
[5].

Data Mining Techniques:
2.1 Association:
In the association data mining technique pattern is
discovered based on a relationship between items in the
same operation. It is also known as relation technique. The
association technique is used in marketbasketanalysis.Also
can be used in the association of some diseases and the
symptoms of those or inter linkages between the diseases. It
is also technique also used in crosses marketing, catalog
design, loss-leader analysis, etc.
2.2 Classification:
It is a classic technique based onmachinelearning method of
classification which is used to classify item in a set of item
into one of a predefined set of clusters or group. It also uses
mathematical techniques such as decision trees, linear
programming, neural network, and statistics. Following are
the various classification algorithms used in healthcare [5]:
K-Nearest Neighbour (K-NN)
Decision Tree (DT)
Support Vector Machine (SVM)
Neural Network (NN)
Bayesian Methods
Breast cancer is one of the dangerous diseases in women.
Potter et al. has performed experiment on the breast cancer
data set using Weka tool and then analyze the performance
of different classifier using 10-fold cross validation method
[6]. Data mining can contribute with important benefits to
the blood bank sector. J48 algorithm and WEKA tool have
been used for the complete research work. Classification
rules performed well in the classification of blood donors,
whose accuracy rate reached 89.9% [7].
2.3 Clustering:
Data mining technique, clustering isthatmakesa meaningful
or useful cluster of objects which have similar properties or
characteristics. The clustering technique describes the
classes and objects in each class, while in the classification
techniques, objects are allottedintopredefinedclasses. Itisa
common descriptive task in which it seek to identify a finite
set of categories or class or clusters to describe the data [8].
Rui Velosoa et. al. [9] had used the clustering approach,
vector quantization method for predicting the readmissions
in intensive medicine. The algorithm used in the vector
quantization method is k-means.
2.4 Prediction:
Data mining technique prediction, as its name implied, that
discovers the relationship between independent variables
and relationship between dependent and indpendent
variables. Adebayo Peter Idowu et al worked in predicting
immunize-able diseases. The data mining model namely
Mathematical Model (MM) for predicting immunize-able
diseases that affect children between ages 0 - 5 years was
designed by this team. The model was adaptedanddeployed
for use in six (6) selected localized areas within an Osun
State in Nigeria. [10]
2.5 Sequential Patterns:
Data mining technique sequential patterns analysis is seeks
to discover or identify similar patterns, regular events or
trends in transaction data over a period.
2.6 Decision Tree
The decision tree is most commonly used data mining
techniques because its model is easy to understand for
users. A decision tree is a structure includes a root node,
branches, and leaf nodes. Data mining approaches that have
been utilized for breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis
Decision tree is found to be the best predictor with 93.62%
Accuracy on benchmark dataset and also on SEER data
set[11].
The researcher Jayanthi Ranjan presented how data mining
discovers and extracts useful patterns of large data to find
observable patterns. They demonstrates the ability of Data
mining in improving the quality of the decision-making
process in the pharma industry [12]. Jyoti Soni et al
accomplished that decision trees, appears to be mainly
effective for predicting patients with no heart disease
compared to the other two models with 89% acuracy [14].
3. MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION
ALGORITHMS
Following are the main five classifications of algorithm used
for analysis in heathcare .
3.1 Classification:
Classification is technique to classify data into a desired and
individual number of classes where we can assign labels to
each class. Healthcare Diagnosis, Speech recognition,
Handwriting recognition,Biometricidentification,Document
classification, etc are the applications of Machine Learning
Classification. There are two categories of classifiers Binary
classifiers and Multi-Class classifiers.The classificationastwo
distinct classes or with two possible outcomes called as
Binary classifiers. Classification with more than two distinct
classes called as Multi-Class classifiers.
3.2.1 Naive Bayes or Naive Bayes Classifier:
Naive Bayes is a probabilistic classifier stimulated by the
Bayes theorem. With the simple assumption that attributes
are conditionally independent. The main advantage of Naive

Bayes algorithm requires a small amount of training data to
estimate the necessary parameters. This classifiers
are extremely fast comparedto moresophisticatedmethods.
Naive Bayes Classifier appear to be most efficientasithasthe
highest percentage of correct predictions rate with 86.53%
accuracy for patients with heart disease, followed by Neural
Network and Decision Trees[14].
3.2.2 Support Vector Machine:
Support vector machine commonly called as SVM is a
representation of the training data as points in space
separated into categories. A clear gap that is as wide as
possible.New scenario are thenmappedintothatsamespace
and predicted to belong to a category based on which side of
the gap. There are three main parameters Type of kernel,
Gamma value, C value. The main advantages of svm is, it is
efficient in high dimensional spaces and uses a subset of
training points in the decision function. It is also memory
efficient.
3.2.3 K-NEAREST NEIGHBOUR (KNN):
K-Nearest Neighbour classify an item into majority vote of
the item’s neighbors, in the space of input parameter. The
object is assigned to the class which is most common among
its “k” nearest neighbor which is an integer part. This
classification is computed from a simple majority vote of the
k nearest neighbors of each point.
Advantages: K-Nearest Neighbour algorithm is simple to
implement, robust to noisy training data and effective if
training data is large.
3.2.4 DECISION TREE
Decision Tree makes decisions with tree-like model. It splits
the sample into two or more homogeneous sets called leaves
which based on the most significant differentiators in input
variables. To chooseadifferentiatororpredictor,thedecision
tree algorithm considers all features and does a binary split
on them for categorical data. It will then choose the one with
the least cost i.e. highest accuracy, and repeats recursively,
until it successfully splits the data in all leaves or reaches the
maximum depth. The main advantage of the decision tree
is,it is simple to understandand visualize, requires little data
preparation, and can handle both numerical and categorical
data.
3.2.5 RANDOM FOREST
Random forest (RF) isa collective model that grows multiple
tree and classify objects based on the votes of all the trees.
RFclassifier is a meta_estimatorthatfitsanumberofdecision
trees on various sub-samplesof datasets and uses averageto
improve the predictive accuracy of the model and controls
over-fitting. The sub-sample size is always the same as the
original input sample size, but the samples are drawn with
replacement. It could handle large data set with high
dimensionality, output Importance of Variable, useful to
explore the data and it could handle missing data while
maintaining accuracy. Advantage of random forest is
reduction in over-fitting and random forestclassifier ismore
accurate than decision trees in most cases.
Stephan Dreiseitl et al evaluated the discriminatory power
of K-nearest neighbors, artificial neural networks (ANNs),
logistic regression, support vector machines (SVMs) and
decision tress on the task of classifying pigmented skin
lesions (nevi), dysplastic nevi OR melanoma[15]. N. G. Maity
et al made case study analysis on machine learning they
demonstrates the use of Bayesian Inference diagnosing
Alzheimer's disease based on cognitive test results and
demographic data and focusedonprogrammedclassification
of cell images to find out the advancement and severity of
breast cancer using ANN[16].
Many machinelearning applications are foundinthemedical
related areas such as Identifying Diseases and Diagnosis,
Drug Discovery and Manufacturing, Medical Imaging
Diagnosis, Personalized Medicine and Outbreak Prediction.
Machine learning applied in healthcare industry play an
important role in prediction and diagnosis of the diseases.
The respective study will find the useful and hidden
knowledge from the dataset.
3. CONCLUSION
In this paper, researcher reviewed research papers on
machine learning methods applied to healthcare
applications. Decision Tree and Support Vector Machine are
the machine learning classification algorithm used by the
majority of researchers in their heathcare predictive
research and are the best algorithm in case of accuracy.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have virtually
endless applications in the healthcare and medical domain.
Machine learning is helping to streamline administrative
processes, diagnosis diseases, prognosisdiseases,treatment
schedule and personalize medical treatments in healthcare
to map and treat diseases. In future, there may be more
advanced Machine Learning technique focused on the early
detection, diagnosis, prognosis of diseases. Based on the
analyzed work, researchers suggest that AI and Machine
Learning approaches could be the vehicle for translating big
heathcare data into improved human health.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Dr.Urmila Pol pursed Bachelor of
Science from Shivaji Universityand
Master of Compter Application
from CSIBER, Shivaji University,
Kolhapur, Maharashtra. She is
currently working as Assitant
Professor in Department of
Computer Sciences, Shivaji
University, Kolhapur,Maharashtra.
She is Member of International
Association of Engineer. Currently,
she is guiding four Ph.D and one
M.Phil student. Her main research
work focuses on Artificial
Intelligence, Data Science, Big Data
Analytics, LMS and Open Source
Technologies, She has 20 years of
teaching experience and 15 years
of Research Experience.
Ms. Manjiri Mahadev Mastoli
pursed Master of Compter
Application from CSIBER, Shivaji
University, Kolhapur,Maharashtra.
She is currently pursuing Ph.D. and
currently working as research
Scholar inDepartmentofComputer
Sciences, Shivaji University,
Kolhapur, Maharashtra. Her main
research work focuses on Artificial
Intelligence and Machine Learning,
Data Science, She has 5 years of
teaching experience and 5 years of
Research Experience.

Mr. R.D. Patil pursed Bachelor of
Enginerring Shivaji University,
Kolhapur and Master of Buniness
Administration from IGNOU. He is
currently working as Quality
Assurance Engineer at Menon
Bearing Ltd, Kolhapur,
Maharashtra. His main research
work focuses on Oprational
Research, Artificial Intelligenceand
Machine Learning. He has 8 years
of Quality Assurance experience
and 4 years of Research
Experience.

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