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Experts that perform the diagnosis are in high demand and their services are expensive, hence the appropriate identification of the cause of vision problems is either postponed or not done at all such that corrective measures are either not done or done too late. An efficient model to predict eye diseases using machine learning (ML) and ranker-based feature selection (r-FS) methods is therefore proposed which will aid in obtaining a correct diagnosis. The aim of this model is to automatically predict one or more of five common eye diseases namely, Cataracts (CT), Acute Angle-Closure Glaucoma (AACG), Primary Congenital Glaucoma (PCG), Exophthalmos or Bulging Eyes (BE) and Ocular Hypertension (OH). We have used efficient data collection methods, data annotations by professional ophthalmologists, applied five different feature selection methods, two types of data splitting techniques (train-test and stratified k-fold cross validation), and applied nine ML methods for the overall prediction approach. While applying ML methods, we have chosen suitable classic ML methods, such as Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Naive Bayes (NB), AdaBoost (AB), Logistic Regression (LR), k-Nearest Neighbour (k-NN), Bagging (Bg), Boosting (BS) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). We have performed a symptomatic analysis of the prominent symptoms of each of the five eye diseases. The results of the analysis and comparison between methods are shown separately. While comparing the methods, we have adopted traditional performance indices, such as accuracy, precision, sensitivity, F1-Score, etc. Finally, SVM outperformed other models obtaining the highest accuracy of 99.11% for 10-fold cross-validation and LR obtained 98.58% for the split ratio of 80:20.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/bioengineering10010025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,27]],"date-time":"2022-12-27T03:05:56Z","timestamp":1672110356000},"page":"25","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["An Efficient Approach to Predict Eye Diseases from Symptoms Using Machine Learning and Ranker-Based Feature Selection Methods"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6520-0749","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ahmed Al","family":"Marouf","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada"},{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Daffodil International University, Dhaka 1341, Bangladesh"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4930-0365","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Md Mozaharul","family":"Mottalib","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6657-9738","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Reda","family":"Alhajj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada"},{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul 34810, Turkey"},{"name":"Department of Heath Informatics, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3439-2917","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jon","family":"Rokne","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Omar","family":"Jafarullah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ispahani Islamia Eye Hospital, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Sutradhar, I., Gayen, P., Hasan, M., Gupta, R.D., Roy, T., and Sarker, M. 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