Leveraging Support Vector Machines and Ensemble Learning for Early Diabetes Risk Assessment: A Comparative Study
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Diabetes, Prediction, Support Vector Machine, Kernels, Ensemble LearningAbstract
Currently, diabetes is a hidden, serious threat to human lifestyles through daily food and drink, which has become a formidable global health challenge. As a contribution, this study suggests a way to use machine learning to find people with diabetes by looking at certain health parameters. It does this by using different Support Vector Machine (SVM)-based models, such as different SVMs with different kernels, such as linear, polynomial, radial basis function, and sigmoid kernels; different ensemble bagging with SVM; and different ensemble stacking with various SVM models. The findings demonstrated that utilizing a single SVM model with a linear kernel, ensemble bagging with a linear SVM, and ensemble stacking with different SVM models yielded the most accurate results, achieving 95% accuracy in both diabetes presence and absence. This lends credence to the idea that the incorporation of a linear kernel has the potential to improve the accuracy of determining whether or not diabetic illness is present.
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