The PLOS One Editors issue this Editorial Note to inform readers that the work cited in this article [1] as Reference 32 was retracted before the publication date of [1]. PLOS considers that this reference is not crucial in supporting the research or conclusions reported in [1], but the following sentences are no longer supported:

• Section 2 Literature Review, paragraph 15, sentence 1: “In [32], the author developed the intelligent diabetes mellitus prediction framework (IDMPF), a framework for diabetes prediction. The Pima dataset was utilised by them. The achieved accuracy was 83%. However, the model gives result but not so good, so their is a way to make it better.”

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