Abstract: Background:The healthcare sector has huge amount of medical data which are information rich and still not properly analyzed; especially, discovering useful information to predict future patterns is very limited. By using data mining techniques, the current study introduced a novel classification methodology and successfully applied it in Sri Lankan domain for the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) classifications. Methods: This study is carried under the two phases. In the first phase, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method namely multilayer feed-forward neural network was used to detect whether a person has a risk of having a kidney disease or not and their risk level. In the second phase, a novel forecasting methodology is proposed using multiple algorithms, which is a.....
Keywords: Artificial Neural Network, Data Mining, Kidney Disease, Random Forest
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