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The diagnosis of anemia often requires laboratory tests, which can be challenging in low-resource areas where anemia is common. We built a supervised learning approach and trained three models (Linear Discriminant Analysis, Decision Trees, and Random Forest) using an anemia dataset from a previous study by Sabatini in 2022. The Random Forest model achieved an accuracy of 99.82%, highlighting its capability to subclassify anemia types (microcytic, normocytic, and macrocytic) with high precision, which is a novel advancement compared to prior studies limited to binary classification (presence\/absence of anemia) of the same dataset.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/informatics12010019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,11]],"date-time":"2025-02-11T10:53:22Z","timestamp":1739271202000},"page":"19","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Anemia Classification System Using Machine Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8746-9386","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jorge G\u00f3mez","family":"G\u00f3mez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, Monter\u00eda 230002, Colombia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6710-5152","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Camilo","family":"Parra Urueta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, Monter\u00eda 230002, Colombia"}]},{"given":"Daniel Salas","family":"\u00c1lvarez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, Monter\u00eda 230002, Colombia"}]},{"given":"Velssy","family":"Hern\u00e1ndez Ria\u00f1o","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de C\u00f3rdoba, Monter\u00eda 230002, Colombia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1338-8820","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gustavo","family":"Ramirez-Gonzalez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Telem\u00e1tica, Universidad del Cauca, Popay\u00e1n 190001, Colombia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.1111\/nyas.14996","article-title":"Diagnosing anemia: Challenges selecting methods, addressing underlying causes, and implementing actions at the public health level","volume":"1524","author":"Dary","year":"2023","journal-title":"Ann. 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