Heart risk failure prediction using a novel feature selection method for feature refinement and neural network for classification

Abstract

Diagnosis of heart disease is a difficult job, and researchers have designed various intelligent diagnostic systems for improved heart disease diagnosis. However, low heart disease prediction accuracy is still a problem in these systems. For better heart risk prediction accuracy, we propose a feature selection method that uses a floating window with adaptive size for feature elimination (FWAFE). After the feature elimination, two kinds of classification frameworks are utilized, i.e., artificial neural network (ANN) and deep neural network (DNN). Thus, two types of hybrid diagnostic systems are proposed in this paper, i.e., FWAFE-ANN and FWAFE-DNN. Experiments are performed to assess the effectiveness of the proposed methods on a dataset collected from Cleveland online heart disease database. The strength of the proposed methods is appraised against accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC), and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve. Experimental outcomes confirm that the proposed models outperformed eighteen other proposed methods in the past, which attained accuracies in the range of 50.00-91.83%. Moreover, the performance of the proposed models is impressive as compared with that of the other state-of-the-art machine learning techniques for heart disease diagnosis. Furthermore, the proposed systems can help the physicians to make accurate decisions while diagnosing heart disease.