Benjamin S. Aribisala

Work place: Department of Computer Science, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, 102101, Nigeria

E-mail: aribisala@uchicago.edu

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Biography

Benjamin S. Aribisala is a Professor of Computer Science in Lagos State University and a Fulbright Scholar. He was the HOD of Computer Science from 2014 to 2018, Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2018 to 2020 and the Director of ICT from July 2020 to December 2020. He was a member of the Governing Council of LASU and a member of the Board of Governors of Lagos State University College of Medicine. His current research interest is in the field of data science and medical application. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and medical image analysis. Before joining LASU, Professor Benjamin Aribisala had worked in Newcastle University (England, UK) and University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) where he conducted research on brain imaging, medical image analysis and machine learning. He is a member of the Nigerian Computer Society, British Computer Society and the Society for brain mapping and therapeutics. He is a great teacher, an excellent mentor, a leader, an administrator and a researcher.

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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