A Computational Intelligence Approach for Predicting Medical Insurance Cost. (28th December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: ul Hassan, Ch. Anwar; Iqbal, Jawaid; Hussain, Saddam; AlSalman, Hussain; Mosleh, Mogeeb A. A.; Sajid Ullah, Syed
• Other Names: Rak Ewa Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Mathematical problems in engineering. Volume 2021(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-12-28
• Subjects: Engineering mathematics -- Periodicals; 510.2462
• DOI: 10.1155/2021/1162553
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1024-123X

Abstract

Abstract : In the domains of computational and applied mathematics, soft computing, fuzzy logic, and machine learning (ML) are well-known research areas. ML is one of the computational intelligence aspects that may address diverse difficulties in a wide range of applications and systems when it comes to exploitation of historical data. Predicting medical insurance costs using ML approaches is still a problem in the healthcare industry that requires investigation and improvement. Using a series of machine learning algorithms, this study provides a computational intelligence approach for predicting healthcare insurance costs. The proposed research approach uses Linear Regression, Support Vector Regression, Ridge Regressor, Stochastic Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, Decision Tree, Random Forest Regressor, Multiple Linear Regression, and k-Nearest Neighbors A medical insurance cost dataset is acquired from the KAGGLE repository for this purpose, and machine learning methods are used to show how different regression models can forecast insurance costs and to compare the models' accuracy. The results shows that the Stochastic Gradient Boosting (SGB) model outperforms the others with a cross-validation value of 0.0.858 and RMSE value of 0.340 and gives 86% accuracy.