THYROID DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING

Abstract

The Thyroid gland is a vascular gland and one of the most important organs of a human body. This gland secretes two hormones which help in controlling the metabolism of the body. The two types of Thyroid disorders are Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism. When this disorder occurs in the body, they release certain type of hormones into the body which imbalances the body’s metabolism. Thyroid related Blood test is used to detect this disease but it is often blurred and noise will be present. Data cleansing methods were used to make the data primitive enough for the analytics to show the risk of patients getting this disease. Machine Learning plays a very deciding role in the disease prediction. Machine Learning algorithms, SVM - support vector machine, decision tree, logistic regression, KNN - K-nearest neighbours, ANNArtificial Neural Network are used to predict the patient’s risk of getting thyroid disease. Web app is created to get data from users to predict the type of disease.