Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease Using Neuro-Fuzzy Rule-based Classifier

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is as severe as cancer in today s world. It may even lead to the permanent failure of kidney. The initial detection of this disease is needed for timely cure. Our work presents a classifier (named ANFIS) in accordance with the notion of neuro-fuzzy in order to detect the existence of chronic kidney disease. We use blood test results of several patients for our research study. We compare our proposed classifier with some conventional classifiers such as Multi-layer Perceptron, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression and Decision Tree. Experimental results indicates that our proposed neuro-fuzzy rule-based classifier performs better than the other classifiers used here. ANFIS has given 3% to 4% better accuracy compared to the other classifiers.