Predicting Obesity in Nutritional Patients using Decision Tree Modeling

Obesity has become a widespread problem that affects not only physical well-being but also mental health. To address this problem and provide solutions, Machine Learning (ML) technology tools are being applied. Studies are currently being developed to improve the prediction of obesity. This study ai...

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Autores: Iparraguirre-Villanueva, Orlando, Mirano-Portilla, Luis, Gamarra-Mendoza, Manuel, Robles-Espiritu, Wilmer
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Autónoma del Perú
Repositorio:AUTONOMA-Institucional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.autonoma.edu.pe:20.500.13067/3187
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13067/3187
https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.0150326
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Obesity
Machine Learning (ML)
Decision Tree (DT)
Prediction
CRISP-DM
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.04
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Sumario:Obesity has become a widespread problem that affects not only physical well-being but also mental health. To address this problem and provide solutions, Machine Learning (ML) technology tools are being applied. Studies are currently being developed to improve the prediction of obesity. This study aimed to predict obesity levels in nutritional patients by analyzing their physical and dietary habits using the Decision Tree (DT) model. For the development of this work, we chose to use the CRISP-DM framework to follow the development in an organized way, thus achieving a better understanding of the data and describing, evaluating, and analyzing the results. The results of this work yielded metrics with significant values for predicting obesity: so much so that the accuracy rate was 92.89%, the sensitivity rate was 94% and the F1 score was 93%. Likewise, accuracy metrics above 88% were obtained for each level of obesity, demonstrating the effectiveness of the DT model in predicting this type of task. Finally, the results demonstrate that the DT model is effective in predicting obesity, with significant results that motivate further research to continue improving accuracy in this type of task.