Among those critical diseases, Diabetes Mellitus is one of the
chronic diseases which affect human well-being at a young stage. The
chronic metabolic disorder diabetes mellitus is a rapidly growing global
challenge imposing massive socio-economic and health hazards. It has been
estimated that by the year 2020 there are nearly 285 million people (close to
6.4% of the adult age group) who are affected by this disease. This number
has been estimated to rise to 430 million with no better control or treatment
available. This rise in the rates in developing countries adopts the trend
changes in urbanization and lifestyle, which includes a "western-style" diet
also. This is due to the awareness being low . An aging population and
obesity constitute are the primary reasons for the rise.
In order to examine the high-risk population group of Diabetes
Mellitus (DM), modern information technology has to be used. Data mining
also called Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is defined to be the
computational process of finding the patterns in massive datasets that include
techniques intersecting Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics,
and Database Systems. The important objectives of these techniques include
Pattern Identification, Prediction, Association, and Clustering. Data
mining consists of a set of steps executed either automatically or semi-automatically
for extracting and finding intriguing, unknown, unseen features
from a paramount volume of data. The superior quality of data and the rightly
used technique are the two important concepts of data mining principle.
Several computational approaches have been designed for the
classification of diabetes occurs in humans. The usage of Machine Learning
in the medical information system has been found to be advantageous since it
improves the diagnostic accuracy, minimizes the expenditure, and also
increases the number of treatments that have been successful for diabetes
mellitus . For the automation of the overall process of diabetes prediction
and severity estimation, a diabetic database is required. This archive of the
diabetic database aids in identifying the effect of diabetes on different human
organs.