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Community-Based Early-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Screening using Explainable Machine Learning for Low-Resource Settings

arXiv · · Research Healthcare

This paper introduces an explainable machine learning framework for early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) screening, specifically designed for low-resource settings in Bangladesh and South Asia. The framework utilizes a community-based dataset from Bangladesh and evaluates multiple ML classifiers with feature selection techniques. Results show that the ML models achieve high accuracy and sensitivity, outperforming existing screening tools and demonstrating strong generalizability across independent datasets from India, the UAE, and Bangladesh.