INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 02, FEBRUARY 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 3290 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org Weight Based- Artificial Neural Network (W-Ann) For Predicting Dengue Using Machine Learning Approach With Indian Perspective. Rajeev Kapoor, Variender Kadyan, Sachin Ahuja Abstract: Dengue is a rising vector borne disease in India. It becomes a burden for whole community residing in India. Unfortunately, still there is no vaccine discovered. Prevention and control of Dengue is still challenge for developing countries like India. The goal of this study is to investigate the influence, symptoms and clinical test parameters that belong to Dengue disease with an Indian perspective. This main aim is to develop a prediction model for early detection of Dengue. The propose prediction model is divided in to the following phases i.e. data preprocessing, training of ANN network with weights of symptoms & signs as well as evaluation function. Machine learning models namely decision tree, random forest and support vector machine is used to detect high priority symptoms. The experimental results show that support vector machine approach is more suitable for propose prediction model with in Indian environment. The future scope of this paper can be extended in to with other diseases like malaria, Chikungunya and Zika etc. Index Terms: Artificial Neural Network, Dataset, Decision Tree, Dengue, Machine Learning, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Vector Borne Diseases 1 INTRODUCTION Vector-borne diseases are a major challenge worldwide. A number of people are suffering due to spread of these vector borne diseases. There are five common vector borne disease namely Malaria, Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Kala Azar and Zika which are found in India. Dengue and Malaria both are found in every changing season. Dengue is considered to be the most challenging vector borne disease due to climate change in India. Prevention and control of dengue is a big challenge in this large country due to diversity of climate, geographical and living standard of countrymen. In the rural area, this job is more complex due to lack of proper medical infrastructure in comparison to an urban area. There is a gap between rural and urban area in terms of medical facilities. This section provides a brief overview regarding dengue, dengue types, symptoms, clinical phases and statistics of dengue with help of the previous history. 1.1. Dengue Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection, causing severe flu- like illness and sometimes causes a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. The only cause of this fever is a bite of Ades Aegyptus and Aedes Albopictus mosquitos. The larvae of Ades Aegyptus are commonly found in waste containers like tires, buckets, flowerpots, wading pools and blocked gutters, tree holes, waste coconut shells. These species are commonly found in dark indoor sites like walls corners, beneath of beds and sofas. These species are day active, fly up to 3 feet and bite during day time and late afternoon. These mosquitos are infected when they bite viraemic person. After 10-12 days period mosquito is also infected with the virus. When female mosquito bites for getting blood meal, virus is also transferred from mosquito to human body. On the other hand, Ades Albopictus mosquitoes are found inside garden grass, tree gaps and crops. These species are daytime feeder. A female aegypti bites human in the early morning and evening before sunset. They bite multiple persons to fulfil each blood feed meal. Four serotypes of this virus, there are DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN4. 1.2. Symptoms of Dengue disease Dengue is a simple flu-like illness that affects newborns, children and adults. There is no specific treatment for dengue fever. Further, Dengue is classified into DF (Dengue Fever), DHF (Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever) and DSS (Dengue Shock Syndrome). The common symptoms of DF include sudden onset of high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, body aches, joint pains, nausea and/or vomiting etc. DHF commonly starts with sudden mild, moderate, or high fever and other symptoms like headaches, nausea, vomiting, pain in the muscles, bones, or joints and rashes on the skin. DSS is the next stage of DHF with additional symptoms like weak rapid pulse, narrow pulse pressure (less than 20 mm Hg), cold, clammy skin and restlessness. 1.3. Clinical phases and tests for dengue Dengue is classified into two Asymptomatic and Symptomatic clinical phases. Asymptomatic dengue infection has no clinical signs or symptom of diseases. In November 2018, many cases of Asymptomatic dengue infection were found in the districts namely Amritsar, Kotkapura, Patiala and Ludhiana in the North Indian State of Punjab. People are infected with dengue infection but no clinical symptoms similar with WHO guidelines appeared during the trails. The only symptom found in clinical report showed the low level of platelets in the blood of patients. Further Symptomatic dengue infection has clinical signs or symptom of dengue diseases fever, vomiting, rashes, joint pain and pain behind eyes etc. Symptomatic dengue is further classified in to undifferentiated, dengue fever syndrome and dengue homeomorphic fever. The undifferentiated fever is the first clinical stage of Symptomatic dengue where the patient experiences fever with mild nonspecific symptoms, but these symptoms do not meet the ———————————————— • Rajeev Kapoor is currently pursuing Doctorate degree program in Computer Science and Engineering in Chitkara University, Punjab, India E-mail: kaps.rajeev@gmail.com • Variender Kadyan is currently Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, Chitkara University, India, E-mail: virender.kadyan@chitkara.edu.in • Sachin Ahuja is currently Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, Chitkara University, India, Email: sachin.ahuja@chitkara.edu.in