Enhancing Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Decisions With Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Predicting Hemoglobin A1c Changes: Machine Learning Model Development

Hisashi Kurasawa   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Kayo Waki   ^{2 *} , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Tomohisa Seki   ² , MD, PhD ;   Akihiro Chiba   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Akinori Fujino   ¹ , PhD ;   Katsuyoshi Hayashi   ¹ , PhD ;   Eri Nakahara   ^{1, 2} , ME ;   Tsuneyuki Haga   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Takashi Noguchi   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Kazuhiko Ohe   ² , MD, PhD

¹ Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

² The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

³ NTT DOCOMO, Inc, Tokyo, Japan

⁴ NTT-AT IPS Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan

⁵ National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

*these authors contributed equally