Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the blood glucose level is higher than normal and also leads to health problems. Early and accurate diagnosis needs to be carried out on individuals affected by this disease. Furthermore, excellent treatment needs to be provided to prevent worse situations. Some studies have used several machine learning methods to diagnose diabetes. Furthermore, in this study, the Backward Elimination and Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm was used to classify the PIMA Indians diabetes dataset. It consisted of 268 diabetic and 500 non-diabetic patients with eight attributes. Backward Elimination is a feature selection method used to remove irrelevant features based on the linear regression model. Using this method, the right features for the model was expected. This method has some advantages which include increasing training time, decreasing complexity and improving performance and accuracy. Therefore, the performance of SVM improved. Based on the experiments, it was discovered that by combining feature selection algorithm (backward elimination) and SVM, the highest accuracy obtained was 85.71% using 90% data training. Therefore, it was concluded that Backward Elimination combined with SVM algorithm is an excellent method to classify diabetes by using the PIMA Indians diabetes dataset.
Ovarian cancer is one of the common malignancies in women and a known cause of death. This condition occurs when a tumor appears from the growth of abnormal cells in the ovary. It causes about 140.000 deaths out of 225.000 cases annually. Most women with ovarian cancer do not have distinctive signs and symptoms even at the late stage. Therefore, diagnosis at an early stage is necessary because it has a significant impact on the survival rate. Machine learning with various methods can be used in the medical field to classify diseases. Among the many methods, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were used and analyzed in this study to classify ovarian cancer. The data used were from Al Islam Bandung Hospital consisting of 203 instances with 130 labeled ovarian cancer and 73 as non-ovarian. The results showed that the KNN produced higher results than SVM with 90.47% of accuracy and 94.11% of F1-score, while SVM produced accuracy and F1-score values of 90.47% and 92.30% respectively.
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