diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/imbalanced-learn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/imbalanced-learn/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..65afe116510ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/imbalanced-learn/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, scikitlearn, pandas, nose, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "imbalanced-learn";
+  version = "0.3.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1r5js9kw6rvmfvxxkfjlcxv5xn5h19qvg7d41byilxwq9kd515g4";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ scikitlearn ];
+  checkInputs = [ nose pytest pandas ];
+  checkPhase = ''
+    export HOME=$PWD
+    # skip some tests that fail because of minimal rounding errors
+    py.test imblearn --ignore=imblearn/metrics/classification.py
+    py.test doc/*.rst
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Library offering a number of re-sampling techniques commonly used in datasets showing strong between-class imbalance";
+    homepage = https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/imbalanced-learn;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b58728ba16874..05b4b9e518bd5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4872,29 +4872,7 @@ in {
 
   };
 
-  imbalanced-learn = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "imbalanced-learn-${version}";
-    version = "0.3.2";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/i/imbalanced-learn/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0j76m0rrsvyqj9bimky9m7b609y5v6crf9apigww3xvcnchhj901";
-    };
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      export HOME=$PWD
-    '';
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ scikitlearn ];
-    buildInputs = with self; [ nose pytest pandas ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Library offering a number of re-sampling techniques commonly used in datasets showing strong between-class imbalance";
-      homepage = https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/imbalanced-learn;
-      license = with licenses; [ mit ];
-    };
-
-  };
+  imbalanced-learn = callPackage ../development/python-modules/imbalanced-learn { };
 
   imread = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "python-imread-${version}";