System for Predicting Heart Disease using Sophisticated Machine Learning Techniques

Cardiovascular illness stands as a significant global health issue, and timely identification of this condition holds paramount importance to ensure effective intervention. In this paper, we introduce a fused model for anticipating heart ailments. This amalgamation incorporates four distinct algorithms: LightGBM, XGBoost, Multilayer Perceptron, and AdaBoost. Through an assessment on the Cleveland dataset, AdaBoost emerged as the most accurate with a precision of 0.985. Subsequently, XGBoost followed closely with an accuracy of 0.980, succeeded by LightGBM at 0.956, and Multilayer Perceptron at 0.936. To harness the collective power of these models, we employed a weighted bagging technique that accords weights to predictions based on their individual accuracy rates. The resultant composite model attained an accuracy of 0.96. This outcome is slightly lower than the model with the highest accuracy, as it involves a weighted mean calculation across model predictions. This study indicates the potential utility of the proposed methodology in cardiac disease prediction, leveraging the ensemble approach to potentially outperform standalone models.