Pediatric diabetes prediction using deep learning

Abstract This study proposed a novel technique for early diabetes prediction with high accuracy. Recently, Deep Learning (DL) has been proven to be expeditious in the diagnosis of diabetes. The supported model is constructed by implementing ten hidden layers and a multitude of epochs using the Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based multi-layer perceptron (MLP) algorithm. We proceeded to meticulously fine-tune the hyperparameters within the fully automated DL architecture to optimize data preprocessing, prediction, and classification using a novel dataset of Mansoura University Children's Hospital Diabetes (MUCHD), which allowed for a comprehensive evaluation of the system’s performance. The system was validated and tested using a sample of 548 patients, each with 18 significant features. Various validation metrics were employed to ensure the reliability of the results using cross-validation approaches with various statistical measures of accuracy, F-score, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and Dice similarity coefficient. The high performance of the proposed system can help clinicians accurately diagnose diabetes, with a remarkable accuracy rate of 99.8%. According to our analysis, implementing this method results in a noteworthy increase of 0.39% in the overall system performance compared to the current state-of-the-art methods. Therefore, we recommend using this method to predict diabetes.