Rigorous assessment of data mining algorithms in gestational diabetes mellitus prediction

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is the type of diabetes that affects pregnant women due to high blood sugar levels. The women with gestational diabetes have a chance of miscarriage during pregnancy and having chance of developing type-2 diabetes in the future. It is a general practice to take proper diabetes test like OGTT to detect GDM. This test is to be done during 24 to 28 weeks of pregnancy. In addition, the use of machine learning could be exploited for predicting gestational diabetes. The main goal of this work is to propose optimal ML algorithms for effective prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus and there by avoid it’s side effects and future complications. In this work different machine algorithms are planned to be compared for their performance in predicting GDM. Before analysing the algorithms they are implemented using 10 fold cross validation technique to obtain better performance. The algorithms implemented are Linear Discriminant Analysis, Mixture Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Flexible Discriminant Analysis, Regularized Discriminant Analysis and Feed Forward Neural Networks. These algorithms are compared depending on performance measures accuracy, kappa statistic, sensitivity, specificity, precision and F-measure. Then feed forward neural networks and Flexible Discriminant Analysis are obtained as optimal in this work.