AN Enhanced Model for Diabetes Prediction using Improved Firefly Feature Selection and Hybrid Random Forest Algorithm

Abstract

Diabetes is a chronic disease that causes numerous amount of death each year. Untreated diabetes disturbs the proper functionality of other organs in human body. Hence early detection is a significant process to have a healthy life style. Usually the performance of the classification is affected due to the existence of high dimensionality in medical data.In this study a system model is proposed on Pima dataset to enhance the classification accuracy by eliminating the irrelevant features. Therefore it is important to choose a suitable feature selection approach that provides the better accuracy in disease prediction compared to prior study.Hencenovel techniquesImprovedFirefly(IFF)andhybrid Random forest algorithmis proposed for feature selection and classification. The present study provides a better result with 96.3% accuracy.The efficiency of the present studyis compared with the prior classification approaches.