Diagnosing the Stage of Hepatitis C Using Machine Learning.

Journal: Journal of healthcare engineering
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Abstract

Hepatitis C is a prevalent disease in the world. Around 3 to 4 million new cases of Hepatitis C are reported every year across the globe. Effective, timely prediction of the disease can help people know about their Stage of Hepatitis C. To identify the Stage of disease, various noninvasive serum biochemical markers and clinical information of the patients have been used. Machine learning techniques have been an effective alternative tool for determining the Stage of this chronic disease of the liver to prevent biopsy side effects. In this study, an Intelligent Hepatitis C Stage Diagnosis System (IHSDS) empowered with machine learning is presented to predict the Stage of Hepatitis C in a human using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The dataset obtained from the UCI machine learning repository contains 29 features, out of which the 19 most reverent are selected to conduct the study; 70% of the dataset is used for training and 30% for validation purposes. The precision value is compared with the proposed IHSDS with previously presented models. The proposed IHSDS has achieved 98.89% precision during training and 94.44% precision during validation.

Authors

  • Muhammad Bilal Butt
    Department of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
  • Majed Alfayad
    College of Computer and Information Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka 72341, Saudi Arabia.
  • Shazia Saqib
    Department of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
  • M A Khan
    Riphah School of Computing & Innovation, Faculty of Computing, Riphah International University, Lahore Campus, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
  • Munir Ahmad
    School of Computer Science, National College of Business Administration & Economics, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
  • Muhammad Adnan Khan
    Department of Computer Science, National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • Nouh Sabri Elmitwally
    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt.