The most prevalent
oropharyngeal malignancy is tonsil cancer, and as cancers caused by the
human papillomavirus (HPV) are becoming more common, their incidence is
also significantly increasing recently. Several popular Machine Learning
classifiers have been used to predict numerous types of cancer
survivability. And it can make a substantial contribution to the field
of cancer prediction. In accordance with that and finding the best
effective models, we applied ten Machine Learning classifiers to the
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program database by
choosing pertinent features to predict tonsil cancer survival status and
evaluated the performance of each of these algorithms using accuracy,
and F1 score, precision, recall, specificity, confusion matrix, and
cross-validations. Additionally, we balance the Alive and Death classes
using the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE). These
methods have been used to analyze tonsil cancer patients’ chances of
surviving and help doctors make a prognosis about the phase of the
illness. According to our result, the Random Forest classifier
outperformed others and obtained the highest score of 93.88%. Besides
this, the Extra Tree classifier, and LGBM classifier also can be helpful
in predicting the survivability of tonsil cancer patients. In addition,
rather of referring to several publications, this resercah will also
assist the researchers in quickly reviewing the relevant literature.