Abstract
Diabetes is one of the most rapidly growing chronic diseases, which has affected millions of people around the globe. Its diagnosis, prediction, proper cure, and management are crucial. Data mining based forecasting techniques for data analysis of diabetes can help in the early detection and prediction of the disease and the related critical events such as hypo/hyperglycemia. Numerous techniques have been developed in this domain for diabetes detection, prediction, and classification. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in the area of diabetes diagnosis and prediction using data mining. The aim of this paper is twofold; firstly, we explore and investigate the data mining based diagnosis and prediction solutions in the field of glycemic control for diabetes. Secondly, in the light of this investigation, we provide a comprehensive classification and comparison of the techniques that have been frequently used for diagnosis and prediction of diabetes based on important key metrics. Moreover, we highlight the challenges and future research directions in this area that can be considered in order to develop optimized solutions for diabetes detection and prediction.