Problem Definition and the Data

Overview

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is one of the leading causes of death around the globe and costs a significant amount of money to the global health care system. One of the major challenges of CKD is that it usually doesn’t show symptoms and can damage kidneys silently. People with early kidney disease may not know anything is wrong. They can’t feel the damage before any kidney function is lost. It happens slowly and in stages. Early detection with the proper treatment can slow kidney disease progression.

This is a real-world problem, and experts are spending resources to develop a medical diagnostic test that is better than our ...