TI - Optimizing diabetes prediction in machine learning models: Evaluating the effectiveness of a novel class imbalance technique—adaptive synthetic class balancing with class proportion filtering AU - BELDAR, P. AU - KAMALAPUR, S. AU - VAIDYA, P. AU - MANKAR, J. SO - Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences 2026;44:2167-2182. DO - 10.14744/sigma.2026.2087