“…Looking at the public datasets, we observed that the most used dataset is the UCI one ( https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Thyroid+Disease ), exploited 27 times ( Duggal & Shukla, 2020 ; Shahid et al, 2019 ; Pan et al, 2016 ; Pavya & Srinivasan, 2017 ; Mahurkar & Gaikwad, 2017 ; Ahmed & Soomrani, 2016 ; Tyagi, Mehra & Saxena, 2018 ; Kumar, 2020 ; Pasha & Mohamed, 2020 ; Shen et al, 2016 ; Bentaiba-Lagrid et al, 2020 ; Raisinghani et al, 2019 ; Vivar et al, 2020 ; Li et al, 2019b ; Ma et al, 2018 ; Kour, Manhas & Sharma, 2020 ; Khan, 2021 ; Priyadharsini & Sasikala, 2022 ; Peya, Chumki & Zaman, 2021 ; Chaubey et al, 2021 ; Hosseinzadeh et al, 2021 ; Juneja, 2022 ; Kishor & Chakraborty, 2021 ; Islam et al, 2022 ; Saktheeswari & Balasubramanian, 2021 ; Chandel et al, 2016 ; Priya & Manavalan, 2018 ). The UCI dataset is characterized by 7,200 instances and 21 categorical and real attributes.…”