Posts in Machine learning

Diabetes detection using machine learning (part II)

In this 2nd post on detecting diabetes with the help of machine learning and using the Pima Indian diabetic database (PIDD) 1, we will dig into testing various classifiers and evaluating their performances. We will also examine the performance improvements by the data transformations explained in the previous post.

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Diabetes detection using machine learning (part I)

Diabetes is one of the most serious health challenges today. The publicly available Pima Indian diabetic database (PIDD) have become a popular approach for testing the efficiency of machine learning algorithms 1. Within this context, this blog post is part of 2 posts providing an in depth introduction to diabetes detection using various machine learning approaches. In this first post in particular, we focus on exploring the data at hand and preparing it for machine learning related processing.

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Voice based gender recognition using Gaussian mixture models

The aforementioned implementation, uses The Free ST American English Corpus data-set (SLR45), which is a free American English corpus by Surfingtech, containing utterances from 10 speakers (5 females and 5 males).

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