Application of Computational Technique in Design of Classifier for Early Detection of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. In view of maternal morbidity and mortality as well as fetal complications, early diagnosis is an utmost necessity in the present scenario. In developing country like India, early detection and prevention will be more cost effective. Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) is the crucial method for diagnosing GDM done usually between 24th and 28th week of pregnancy. The proposed work focuses on early detection of GDM without a visit to the hospital for women who are pregnant for the second time onwards (multigravida patients). A decision support system using Multilayer Neural Network which learns to classify GDM and non GDM patients using Back 3328 Priya Shirley Muller et al. Propagation learning algorithm is developed. The classifier proves to be an efficient model for diagnosis of GDM without the conventional method of blood test by providing newly designed parameters as inputs to the network.