diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Imputer.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Imputer.scala
index 1c074e204ad9..bdad804083b0 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Imputer.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/Imputer.scala
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ private[feature] trait ImputerParams extends Params with HasInputCols with HasOu
       s" and outputCols(${$(outputCols).length}) should have the same length")
     val outputFields = $(inputCols).zip($(outputCols)).map { case (inputCol, outputCol) =>
       val inputField = schema(inputCol)
-      SchemaUtils.checkColumnTypes(schema, inputCol, Seq(DoubleType, FloatType))
+      SchemaUtils.checkNumericType(schema, inputCol)
       StructField(outputCol, inputField.dataType, inputField.nullable)
     }
     StructType(schema ++ outputFields)
@@ -84,9 +84,13 @@ private[feature] trait ImputerParams extends Params with HasInputCols with HasOu
  * :: Experimental ::
  * Imputation estimator for completing missing values, either using the mean or the median
  * of the columns in which the missing values are located. The input columns should be of
- * DoubleType or FloatType. Currently Imputer does not support categorical features
+ * numeric type. Currently Imputer does not support categorical features
  * (SPARK-15041) and possibly creates incorrect values for a categorical feature.
  *
+ * Note when an input column is integer, the imputed value is casted (truncated) to an integer type.
+ * For example, if the input column is IntegerType (1, 2, 4, null),
+ * the output will be IntegerType (1, 2, 4, 2) after mean imputation.
+ *
  * Note that the mean/median value is computed after filtering out missing values.
  * All Null values in the input columns are treated as missing, and so are also imputed. For
  * computing median, DataFrameStatFunctions.approxQuantile is used with a relative error of 0.001.
@@ -218,7 +222,7 @@ class ImputerModel private[ml] (
     val newCols = $(inputCols).zip($(outputCols)).zip(surrogates).map {
       case ((inputCol, outputCol), surrogate) =>
         val inputType = dataset.schema(inputCol).dataType
-        val ic = col(inputCol)
+        val ic = col(inputCol).cast(DoubleType)
         when(ic.isNull, surrogate)
           .when(ic === $(missingValue), surrogate)
           .otherwise(ic)
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/ImputerSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/ImputerSuite.scala
index 75f63a623e6d..02ef261a6c06 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/ImputerSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/feature/ImputerSuite.scala
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ import org.apache.spark.SparkException
 import org.apache.spark.ml.util.{DefaultReadWriteTest, MLTest}
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.TestingUtils._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, Row}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
 
 class ImputerSuite extends MLTest with DefaultReadWriteTest {
 
@@ -176,6 +178,48 @@ class ImputerSuite extends MLTest with DefaultReadWriteTest {
     assert(newInstance.surrogateDF.collect() === instance.surrogateDF.collect())
   }
 
+  test("Imputer for IntegerType with default missing value null") {
+
+    val df = spark.createDataFrame(Seq[(Integer, Integer, Integer)](
+      (1, 1, 1),
+      (11, 11, 11),
+      (3, 3, 3),
+      (null, 5, 3)
+    )).toDF("value1", "expected_mean_value1", "expected_median_value1")
+
+    val imputer = new Imputer()
+      .setInputCols(Array("value1"))
+      .setOutputCols(Array("out1"))
+
+    val types = Seq(IntegerType, LongType)
+    for (mType <- types) {
+      // cast all columns to desired data type for testing
+      val df2 = df.select(df.columns.map(c => col(c).cast(mType)): _*)
+      ImputerSuite.iterateStrategyTest(imputer, df2)
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("Imputer for IntegerType with missing value -1") {
+
+    val df = spark.createDataFrame(Seq[(Integer, Integer, Integer)](
+      (1, 1, 1),
+      (11, 11, 11),
+      (3, 3, 3),
+      (-1, 5, 3)
+    )).toDF("value1", "expected_mean_value1", "expected_median_value1")
+
+    val imputer = new Imputer()
+      .setInputCols(Array("value1"))
+      .setOutputCols(Array("out1"))
+      .setMissingValue(-1.0)
+
+    val types = Seq(IntegerType, LongType)
+    for (mType <- types) {
+      // cast all columns to desired data type for testing
+      val df2 = df.select(df.columns.map(c => col(c).cast(mType)): _*)
+      ImputerSuite.iterateStrategyTest(imputer, df2)
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 object ImputerSuite {
@@ -190,6 +234,13 @@ object ImputerSuite {
       val model = imputer.fit(df)
       val resultDF = model.transform(df)
       imputer.getInputCols.zip(imputer.getOutputCols).foreach { case (inputCol, outputCol) =>
+
+        // check dataType is consistent between input and output
+        val inputType = resultDF.schema(inputCol).dataType
+        val outputType = resultDF.schema(outputCol).dataType
+        assert(inputType == outputType, "Output type is not the same as input type.")
+
+        // check value
         resultDF.select(s"expected_${strategy}_$inputCol", outputCol).collect().foreach {
           case Row(exp: Float, out: Float) =>
             assert((exp.isNaN && out.isNaN) || (exp == out),
@@ -197,6 +248,12 @@ object ImputerSuite {
           case Row(exp: Double, out: Double) =>
             assert((exp.isNaN && out.isNaN) || (exp ~== out absTol 1e-5),
               s"Imputed values differ. Expected: $exp, actual: $out")
+          case Row(exp: Integer, out: Integer) =>
+            assert(exp == out,
+              s"Imputed values differ. Expected: $exp, actual: $out")
+          case Row(exp: Long, out: Long) =>
+            assert(exp == out,
+              s"Imputed values differ. Expected: $exp, actual: $out")
         }
       }
     }