Machine Learning-based Prediction of Diabetes for Improved Healthcare

c1b70a5f-3299-41df-b167-af3093bff8e220250807132835828wseas:wseasmdt@crossref.orgMDT DepositWSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER RESEARCH2415-15211991-875510.37394/232018http://wseas.org/wseas/cms.action?id=13372110202511020251310.37394/232018.2025.13https://wseas.com/journals/cr/2025.phpMachine Learning-based Prediction of Diabetes for Improved HealthcareRongZhaoInstitute of Computer Science and Digital Innovation, UCSI University, WP Kuala Lumpur 56000, MALAYSIAGhassan SalehAldharhaniInstitute of Computer Science and Digital Innovation, UCSI University, WP Kuala Lumpur 56000, MALAYSIAKurunathanRatnaveluInstitute of Computer Science and Digital Innovation, UCSI University, WP Kuala Lumpur 56000, MALAYSIADiabetes is a disease that can lead to severe tissue damage and dysfunction, and to improve the accuracy of one's prediction of early diabetes, patient datasets can be used to build Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models to make the results more accurate and valid. There have been impressive advances in the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning techniques in healthcare systems. This paper presents a comparative analysis of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for diabetes. The dataset used in the experiment is available at www.kaggle.com. In our experiments, we compared and analyzed the classification accuracies of each dataset under different classification algorithms and compared and analyzed the results with the accuracies of the corresponding algorithms listed in the references. The results show that in most cases the proposed algorithm outperforms the references in terms of classification accuracy, and the difference in this result is due to different data preprocessing. The original dataset will be further improved in the data preprocessing section and feature engineering will be further investigated at a later stage. 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