diabetes-risk-prediction

Diabetes Risk Prediction

A logistic_regression pipeline (median imputation → standard scaling → classifier, class_weight="balanced") that estimates the probability that a patient has diabetes from 8 routine clinical measurements. Model selection, hyperparameters, and the decision threshold were all chosen by 5-fold cross-validation on the training set — see the search results below.

This is an educational prototype, not a diagnostic or clinical decision-making tool. Do not use it for real patient care.

Intended use

• Intended: a worked example of an end-to-end tabular ML workflow (cleaning → training → cross-validated tuning → evaluation) on a small, well-known dataset.
• Not intended: diagnosis, screening, or any clinical decision-making. The training data is small (768 patients), from a single population (Pima Indian women, a study from the 1990s), and is not representative of a general patient population.

How to use

The "Use this model" button above may show a snippet based on skops.hub_utils.download, which was removed in skops >= 0.12 (this model was published with skops 0.14) and will raise ModuleNotFoundError if run as-is. Use the snippet below instead — it's verified against this exact repo.

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import skops.io as sio
import pandas as pd

path = hf_hub_download("RavshanjonEminov/diabetes-risk-prediction", "model.skops")
# numpy.dtype is skops's only flagged type here -- it comes from the
# scaler/imputer's stored statistics arrays, not from executable code.
artifact = sio.load(path, trusted=["numpy.dtype"])
pipeline, threshold = artifact["pipeline"], artifact["threshold"]

patient = pd.DataFrame([{
    "Pregnancies": 2, "Glucose": 130, "BloodPressure": 70,
    "SkinThickness": 25, "Insulin": 90, "BMI": 28.5,
    "DiabetesPedigreeFunction": 0.35, "Age": 45,
}])
probability = pipeline.predict_proba(patient)[0, 1]
prediction = "Diabetes" if probability >= threshold else "No Diabetes"
print(prediction, probability)

Training data

• Pima Indians Diabetes Dataset (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases), 768 patients, 8 features, 1 binary outcome.
• Features: Pregnancies, Glucose, BloodPressure, SkinThickness, Insulin, BMI, DiabetesPedigreeFunction, Age.
• Glucose, BloodPressure, SkinThickness, Insulin, and BMI use 0 to encode missing values in the source data; these are treated as missing and median-imputed (fit on the training split only).
• 80/20 train/test split, stratified by outcome, random_state=42.
• Class balance: ~65% no diabetes, ~35% diabetes.
• Sources: Kaggle mirror, UCI ML Repository listing.

Model selection & tuning

A 5-fold cross-validated grid search (training set only, scored by ROC-AUC) compared 3 model families, each with class_weight="balanced" to address low recall on the diabetes class:

The decision threshold (0.58) was then chosen from out-of-fold predictions to maximize F1, instead of leaving it at the default 0.5.

Evaluation

Test set (n=154, threshold=0.58):

5-fold cross-validation (training set, mean ± std):

Sanity checks: model ROC-AUC 0.8104 vs. a class-balance-only baseline of 0.5452. Bootstrap 95% CI for test-set ROC-AUC: [0.7321, 0.8759] (2000 resamples) — a reminder that a single 154-patient test set carries real uncertainty.

Limitations

• Small, single-population dataset; generalization to other populations is unverified.
• Median imputation for missing values is a simplification.
• No external validation cohort — metrics reflect a random 20% split of the same source data.
• Not calibrated or validated for clinical use.

Ethical considerations

Diabetes risk prediction is sensitive: false negatives could delay appropriate care, and false positives could cause unnecessary worry. Real-world use would require clinical validation, regulatory review, and ongoing monitoring — well beyond the scope of this prototype.

Links

• Source code: see the project's GitHub repository (search RavshanjonEminov/diabetes-risk-prediction).
• License: MIT (code); see dataset sources above for data terms.