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The Impact of Oversampling with SMOTE on the Performance of 3 Classifiers in Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes

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  • Azra Ramezankhani
  • Omid Pournik
  • Jamal Shahrabi
  • Fereidoun Azizi
  • Farzad Hadaegh
  • Davood Khalili

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Objective. To evaluate the impact of the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) on the performance of probabilistic neural network (PNN), naïve Bayes (NB), and decision tree (DT) classifiers for predicting diabetes in a prospective cohort of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS). Methods . Data of the 6647 nondiabetic participants, aged 20 years or older with more than 10 years of follow-up, were used to develop prediction models based on 21 common risk factors. The minority class in the training dataset was oversampled using the SMOTE technique, at 100%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 500%, 600%, and 700% of its original size. The original and the oversampled training datasets were used to establish the classification models. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, precision, F-measure, and Youden’s index were used to evaluated the performance of classifiers in the test dataset. To compare the performance of the 3 classification models, we used the ROC convex hull (ROCCH). Results. Oversampling the minority class at 700% (completely balanced) increased the sensitivity of the PNN, DT, and NB by 64%, 51%, and 5%, respectively, but decreased the accuracy and specificity of the 3 classification methods. NB had the best Youden’s index before and after oversampling. The ROCCH showed that PNN is suboptimal for any class and cost conditions. Conclusions. To determine a classifier with a machine learning algorithm like the PNN and DT, class skew in data should be considered. The NB and DT were optimal classifiers in a prediction task in an imbalanced medical database.

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  • Azra Ramezankhani & Omid Pournik & Jamal Shahrabi & Fereidoun Azizi & Farzad Hadaegh & Davood Khalili, 2016. "The Impact of Oversampling with SMOTE on the Performance of 3 Classifiers in Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 36(1), pages 137-144, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:36:y:2016:i:1:p:137-144
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X14560647
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    1. Davide Barbieri & Nitesh Chawla & Luciana Zaccagni & Tonći Grgurinović & Jelena Šarac & Miran Čoklo & Saša Missoni, 2020. "Predicting Cardiovascular Risk in Athletes: Resampling Improves Classification Performance," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-9, October.
    2. Songul Cinaroglu, 2020. "Modelling unbalanced catastrophic health expenditure data by using machine‐learning methods," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(4), pages 168-181, October.

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