Significance of Visible Non-Invasive Risk Attributes for the Initial Prediction of Heart Disease Using Different

Syed Immamul Ansarullah1, Syed Mohsin Saif2, Pradeep Kumar3

  • 1Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Cluster University, Jammu, India.

Insights

A new heart disease risk model uses non-invasive factors like age and smoking to predict risk accurately. The random forest model shows superior performance, offering a low-cost solution for early detection.

Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Medical Informatics
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Heart disease is a leading global cause of death and a significant economic burden.
  • There is a critical need for effective, affordable, and reliable heart disease risk assessment tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a heart disease risk evaluation model using significant non-invasive risk attributes.
  • To investigate the reliability of attributes like age, blood pressure, BMI, smoking, and physical activity in heart disease prediction.

Main Methods:

  • Feature selection techniques were employed to identify significant risk factors.
  • Machine learning algorithms including random forest, Naïve Bayes, decision tree, support vector machine, and K nearest neighbor were tested.
  • The model was developed using a Jupyter Notebook web application.

Main Results:

  • The random forest model demonstrated superior predictive accuracy and a lower misclassification rate compared to other tested models.
  • Performance was evaluated using measures such as error rate, AUROC, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • The developed random forest heart disease risk model offers an effective and accurate prediction tool.
  • This model is particularly valuable for regions lacking integrated primary medical care for early risk prediction.
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