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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111054
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Empirical Oversampling Threshold Strategy for Machine Learning Performance Optimisation in Insurance Fraud Detection

Author 1: Bouzgarne Itri
Author 2: Youssfi Mohamed
Author 3: Bouattane Omar
Author 4: Qbadou Mohamed

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 10, 2020.

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Abstract: Insurance fraud is one of the most practiced frauds in the sectors of the economy. Faced with increasingly imaginative underwriters to create fraud scenarios and the emergence of organized crime groups, the fraud detection process based on artificial intelligence remains one of the most effective approaches. Real world datasets are usually unbalanced and are mainly composed of "no-fraudulent" class with a very small percentage of "fraudulent" examples to train our model, thus prediction models see their performance severely degraded when the target class appears so poorly represented. Therefore, the present work aims to propose an approach that improves the relevance of the results of the best-known machine learning algorithms and deals with imbalanced classes in classification problems for prediction against insurance fraud. We use one of the most efficient approaches to re-balance training data: SMOTE. We adopted the supervised method applied to automobile claims dataset "carclaims.txt". We compare the results of the different measurements and question the results and relevance of the measurements in the field of study of unbalanced and labeled datasets. This work shows that the SMOTE Method with the KNN Algorithm can achieve better classifier performance in a True Positive Rate than the previous research. The goal of this work is to lead a study of algorithm selections and performance evaluation among different ML classification algorithms, as well as to propose a new approach TH-SMOTE for performance improvement using the SMOTE method by defining the optimum oversampling threshold according to the G-mean measure.

Keywords: Machine learning; oversampling; SMOTE; insurance fraud

Bouzgarne Itri, Youssfi Mohamed, Bouattane Omar and Qbadou Mohamed, “Empirical Oversampling Threshold Strategy for Machine Learning Performance Optimisation in Insurance Fraud Detection” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(10), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111054

@article{Itri2020,
title = {Empirical Oversampling Threshold Strategy for Machine Learning Performance Optimisation in Insurance Fraud Detection},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111054},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111054},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {10},
author = {Bouzgarne Itri and Youssfi Mohamed and Bouattane Omar and Qbadou Mohamed}
}



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