Neural network and support vector machine for the prediction of chronic kidney disease: A comparative study. (June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Almansour, Njoud Abdullah; Syed, Hajra Fahim; Khayat, Nuha Radwan; Altheeb, Rawan Kanaan; Juri, Renad Emad; Alhiyafi, Jamal; Alrashed, Saleh; Olatunji, Sunday O.
• Is Part Of: Computers in biology and medicine. Volume 109(2019)
• Page Start: 101
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2019-06
• Subjects: Machine learning -- Artificial Neural Network (ANN) -- Support Vector Machine (SVM) -- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD); Medicine -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Biology -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 610.285
• DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.04.017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0010-4825

Abstract

Abstract: This paper aims to assist in the prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by utilizing machine learning techniques to diagnose CKD at an early stage. Kidney diseases are disorders that disrupt the normal function of the kidney. As the percentage of patients affected by CKD is significantly increasing, effective prediction procedures should be considered. In this paper, we focus on applying different machine learning classification algorithms to a dataset of 400 patients and 24 attributes related to diagnosis of chronic kidney disease. The classification techniques used in this study include Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). To perform experiments, all missing values in the dataset were replaced by the mean of the corresponding attributes. Then, the optimized parameters for the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) techniques were determined by tuning the parameters and performing several experiments. The final models of the two proposed techniques were developed using the best-obtained parameters and features. The empirical results from the experiments indicated that ANN performed better than SVM, with accuracies of 99.75% and 97.75%, respectively, indicating that the outcome of this study is very promising. Highlights of the research: ANN and SVM based models are developed for the prediction of kidney disease. Comparative analysis was carried out on the two models-ANN and SVM. Both ANN and SVM performed excellently but ANN model slightly performed better than SVM. The two proposed ANN and SVM models demonstrated promising capabilities of such techniques in the field of medicine.