Heart Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning

Heart disease is one of the most common and serious health issues in all the age groups. The food habits, mental stress, smoking, etc. are a few reasons for heart diseases. Diagnosing heart issues at an early stage is very much important to take proper treatment. The treatment of heart disease at the later stage is very expensive and risky. In this chapter, the authors discuss machine learning approaches to predict heart disease from a set of health parameters collected from a person. The heart disease dataset from the UCI machine learning repository is used for the study. This chapter discusses the heart disease prediction capability of four well-known machine learning approaches: naive Bayes classifier, KNN classifier, decision tree classifier, random forest classifier.