The Diagnosis of Diabetes Using a Hybrid Algorithm Consisting of the Flower Pollination Algorithm and an Ensemble of a Subset of K-NN Classifiers

Diabetes is a disease which, as well as prevention, requires a high level of care, such as monitoring the blood sugar changes. The timely diagnosis of disease plays an important role in its treatment and decreases the damage caused by the disease. Therefore, it is essential to diagnose diabetes. Since hybrid algorithms have a high ability to predict and diagnose various diseases, this article presents an intelligent approach to the diagnosis of this disease, using a hybrid algorithm of flower pollination and K-nearest neighbor ensemble. The accuracy of the proposed method is measured to be 97.78, by using Pima Indians Diabetes (PID) dataset, consisting of 768 samples and 8 features. The results show that the accuracy of this approach has significantly increased compared with the previous studies, and confirms the superiority of the proposed method.