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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100816
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Predicting Return Donor and Analyzing Blood Donation Time Series using Data Mining Techniques

Author 1: Anfal Saad Alkahtani
Author 2: Musfira Jilani

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 10 Issue 8, 2019.

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Abstract: Since blood centers in most countries typically rely on volunteer donors to meet the hospitals' needs, donor retention is critical for blood banks. Identifying regular donors is critical for the advance planning of blood banks to guarantee a stable blood supply. In this research, donors' data was collected from a Saudi blood bank from 2017 to 2018. Machine learning algorithms such as logistic regression (LG), random forest (RF) and support vector classifier (SVC) were applied to develop and evaluate models for classifying blood donors as return and non-return donors. The natural imbalance of the donors' distribution required extra attention and considerations to produce classifiers with good performance. Thus, over-SMOTE sampling was tested. Experiments of different classifiers showed very similar performance results. In addition to the donors return classification, a time series analysis on the donors dataset was also considered to find any seasonal variations that could be captured and delivered to blood banks for better planning and decision making. After aggregating the donation count by month, results showed that the number of donations each year was stable except for two discovered drops in June and September, which for the two observed years coincided with two religious periods: Fasting and Performing Hajj.

Keywords: Classification; machine learning; time series analysis; blood donation

Anfal Saad Alkahtani and Musfira Jilani, “Predicting Return Donor and Analyzing Blood Donation Time Series using Data Mining Techniques” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 10(8), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100816

@article{Alkahtani2019,
title = {Predicting Return Donor and Analyzing Blood Donation Time Series using Data Mining Techniques},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100816},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100816},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {10},
number = {8},
author = {Anfal Saad Alkahtani and Musfira Jilani}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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