Volume 12, Number 21, November 2022

A Comprehensive Study on Machine Learning Methods to Increase the Prediction Accuracy of Classifiers and Reduce the Number of Medical Tests Required to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

  Authors

Md. Sharifur Rahman and Girijesh Prasad, Ulster University, UK

  Abstract

Alzheimer's patients gradually lose their ability to think, behave, and interact with others. Medical history, laboratory tests, daily activities, and personality changes can all be used to diagnose the disorder. A series of time-consuming and expensive tests are used to diagnose the illness. The most effective way to identify Alzheimer's disease is using a Random-forest classifier in this study, along with various other Machine Learning techniques. The main goal of this study is to fine-tune the classifier to detect illness with fewer tests while maintaining a reasonable disease discovery accuracy. We successfully identified the condition in almost 94% of cases using four of the thirty frequently utilized indicators.

  Keywords

Machine Learning, Accuracy, Precision, Recall, Classifier, Random Forest, Alzheimer’s.