RT Conference Proceedings T1 Prediction of Metabolic Syndrome Based on Machine Learning Techniques with Emphasis on Feature Relevances and Explainability Analysis A1 Ispizua, Begoña A1 Manjarrés, Diana A1 Niño-Adan, Iratxe A2 Jiang, Xingpeng A2 Wang, Haiying A2 Alhajj, Reda A2 Hu, Xiaohua A2 Engel, Felix A2 Mahmud, Mufti A2 Pisanti, Nadia A2 Cui, Xuefeng A2 Song, Hong AB Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is considered to be a major public health problem worldwide leading to a high risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, data collected by the Precision Medicine Initiative of the Basque Country, named the AKRIBEA project, is employed to infer via Machine Learning (ML) techniques the features that have the most influence on predicting MetS in the general case and also separately by gender. Different Feature Normalization (FN) and Feature Weighting (FW) methods are applied and an exhaustive analysis of explainability by means of Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) and feature relevance methods is performed. Validation results show that the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) with Min-Max FN and Mutual Information FW achieves the best trade-off between precision and recall performance metrics. PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. SN 9798350337488 YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/5008 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/5008 LA eng NO Ispizua , B , Manjarrés , D & Niño-Adan , I 2023 , Prediction of Metabolic Syndrome Based on Machine Learning Techniques with Emphasis on Feature Relevances and Explainability Analysis . in X Jiang , H Wang , R Alhajj , X Hu , F Engel , M Mahmud , N Pisanti , X Cui & H Song (eds) , Proceedings - 2023 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023 . Proceedings - 2023 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023 , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , pp. 1989-1992 , 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2023 , Istanbul , Turkey , 5/12/23 . https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM58861.2023.10385780 NO conference NO Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 30 sept 2024