Using Blood Indexes to Predict Overweight Statuses: An Extreme Learning Machine-Based Approach.

ABSTRACT: The number of the overweight people continues to rise across the world. Studies have shown that being overweight can increase health risks, such as high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, and certain forms of cancer. Therefore, identifying the overweight status in people is critical to prevent and decrease health risks. This study explores a new technique that uses blood and biochemical measurements to recognize the overweight condition. A new machine learning technique, an extreme learning machine, was developed to accurately detect the overweight status from a pool of 225 overweight and 251 healthy subjects. The group included 179 males and 297 females. The detection method was rigorously evaluated against the real-life dataset for accuracy, sensitivity, specifici

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658146 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature