Performance Analysis of Classification Techniques With Feature Selection Method for Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease has become a very prevalent problem worldwide and almost 10% of the population is suffering and millions of people are dying every year because of chronic kidney disease. Numerous machine learning and data mining techniques are applied by many researchers around the world to diagnose the presence of chronic kidney disease, so that the patients of chronic kidney disease may get benefited in terms of getting proper healthcare follow-up. In this chapter, Experiment 1 is conducted by implementing different five different classifiers on the original chronic kidney disease dataset. In Experiment 2, feature selection using feature importance method is used to reduce the chronic kidney disease dataset. A subset of 15 independent features and one target feature ‘class' is obtained. Again, the same steps are implemented but on the newly obtained reduced dataset. The results of both the Experiments 1 and 2 are compared, and it is observed that the accuracy of classifiers with feature selection is far better than the accuracy of classifiers without feature selection.