Comparative analysis of resampling algorithms in the prediction of stroke diseases

Stroke disease is a serious cause of death globally. Early predictions of the disease will save a lot of lives but most of the clinical datasets are imbalanced in nature including the stroke dataset, making the predictive algorithms biased towards the majority class. The objective of this research is to compare different data resampling algorithms on the stroke dataset to improve the prediction performances of the machine learning models. This paper considered five (5) resampling algorithms namely; Random over Sampling (ROS), Synthetic Minority oversampling Technique (SMOTE), Adaptive Synthetic (ADASYN), hybrid techniques like SMOTE with Edited Nearest Neighbor (SMOTE-ENN), and SMOTE with Tomek Links (SMOTE-TOMEK) and trained on six (6) machine learning classifiers namely; Logistic Regression (LR), Decision Tree (DT), K-nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and XGBoost (XGB). The hybrid technique SMOTE-ENN influences the machine learning classifiers the best followed by the SMOTE technique while the combination of SMOTE and XGB perform better with an accuracy of 97.99% and G-mean score of 0.99, and auc_roc score of 0.99. Resampling algorithms balance the dataset and enhanced the predictive power of machine learning algorithms. Therefore, we recommend resampling stroke dataset in predicting stroke disease than modeling on the imbalanced dataset.