Intelligent Predictive Model for Hepatitis C

Abstract

Hepatitis C is the liver's festering that can lead to severe liver damage, usually caused by the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C has different stages. It is tough to cure in it's last stages; at the same time, it is expensive and painful process. The current research, however, is an alternative precaution to this issue. Hepatitis C can be predicted early by using multiple factors. The dataset related to hepatitis C was not publicly available. To overcome this challenge, the healthy and HCV effected samples were collected from different hospitals in Punjab. A questionnaire based survey was taken including different HCV related factor i.e. gender, weight loss, hives/ rashes, swelling, jaundice, drug addiction history, hepatic encephalopa-thy (drowsiness, slurred speech), Ascites (fluid buildup in belly/ abdomen), spider angiomas (Spiderlike blood vessels), shared syringe usage, medical history, and severeness. Different cleaning, scaling, and feature selection techniques were applied to collect the best feature data. After selection, various machine learning algorithms were applied. Random forest, KNN, Decision Tree, SVC, and MLP were used, but MLP yielded optimal results in all classification algorithms. We have gained 95.9 % accuracy when tested on unknown data based on the MLP model. As the predictions' results were satisfactory, it would be helpful for the people and act as a critical awareness.