Samson A. Arekete

Work place: Department of Computer Science, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun, 232101, Nigeria

E-mail: areketes@run.edu.ng

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Biography

Samson A. Arekete received his B.Tech. degree in Engineering Physics (Electronics) in 1987 and his M.Tech. degree in Computer Science in 1995, both from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same institution in 2013. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience, in addition to over a decade of professional practice in the marketing research industry. Prof. Arekete began his academic career at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, and later served as Lecturer I at Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria. He joined Redeemer’s University in 2007, where he has risen through the ranks and is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Digital Technologies. His research interests include mobile agents, artificial intelligence, intelligent systems and data science.In addition to his academic contributions, Prof. Arekete held senior positions in industry, including Data Processing Manager at Research & Marketing Services, Lagos; Head of the Data Engineering Unit at Infosense Pty, Cape Town, South Africa; and Assistant General Manager, IT & Analysis Division at Market Research Consultancy Ltd., Lagos (1996–2005). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and continues to be an active contributor to the advancement of computer science in Nigeria and beyond.

Author Articles
Smart Diagnosis: An Ensemble Machine Learning Web Application for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

By Yetunde D. Otun Abosede O. Oguntunde Samson A. Arekete Oluwole B. Olajide Benjamin S. Aribisala

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2026.03.05, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

Alzheimer disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder and the primary cause of dementia among the population, which has a huge burden to the patients, their caregivers and the health care system. Timely intervention is necessary to reduce disease progression, facilitate timely intervention and improve the quality of life. But the traditional forms of diagnostic are frequently costly and non-available especially in resource-deficient environments. The research paper proposes an interpretable and cost-efficient machine-learning model that can be used to identify the presence of Alzheimer disease at its early stages based on clinical and demographic metrics based on the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies cross-sectional dataset, which contains 436 participants. The data consists of seven numeric and two categorical variables, whereas the Clinical Dementia Rating was changed into two categories namely demented and non-demented. An extensive preprocessing pipeline was used, which entailed missing value imputation, categorical encoding and elimination of irrelevant variables, as well as class balancing with the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique. A number of machine learning models were tested, which comprise Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and Extreme Gradient Boosting. The results show that the highest accuracy of 92% was attained using the model implemented by the ensemble and the tree, with the most accuracy being returned by the Random Forest and the ensemble model. Random Forest, too, had a sensitivity of 95%, whereas Gradient Boosting and Extreme Gradient Boosting had the highest area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 98%. The models were implemented as a lightweight web application on the Flask framework, which can make real-time predictions and color coded. The system illustrates the possibility of combining interpretable machine learning with web technologies to make it possible to conduct easy and effective early screening of Alzheimer disease under resource-limited healthcare conditions.

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