Hybrid machine learning method for classification and recommendation of vector-borne disease

Abstract

Vector-borne diseases (VBD) are a class of infectious illnesses that are transmitted to humans and animals through the bites of arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. These diseases are caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites, and are a significant global public health concern. Vector-borne diseases are prevalent in many parts of the world, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, where the vectors thrive. This research has contributed by constructing a hybrid machine learning based prediction model, which helps to discover patients who are infected by vector-borne disease at an earlier stage and also helps with the categorization and diagnosis of severe vector-borne disease. The model that has been proposed is made up of units: data conversion, data preprocessing, normalization, extraction of feature, splitting of dataset, and classification and prediction unit. The fact that the suggested prediction model is capable of identifying vector-borne disease in its early phases as well as categorizing the kind of disease using the medical report of a sufferer is one of the innovative aspects of the model. The 7 distinct conventional machine learning and single hybrid machine learning (HML) are applied for classification and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based reinforcement learning are utilized for recommendation. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the system that’s been proposed, a number of tests were carried out. A dataset consisting of 1539 different cases of a disease transmitted by vectors has been collected. The 11 common vector-borne diseases namely malaria, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, kala-azar and chikungunya were taken for experimental evaluation. The performance accuracy of the proposed prediction model has been measured at 98.76%, which assists the healthcare team in making decisions on a timely basis and ultimately helps to save the patient’s lives. The final phase system provides the recommendation for those classifiers resulting in four different classes such as normal, mild, moderate and severe respectively. The recommendation is also demonstrating future direction for cure of vector borne disease.