Heart Disease Prediction Using Decision Tree and Random Forest Classification Techniques

Abstract

Data mining is the approach which can extract useful information from the data. The prediction analysis is the approach which can predict future possibilities based on the current information. The authors propose a hybrid classifier to carry out the heart disease prediction. The hybrid classifier is combination of random forest and decision tree classifier. Moreover, the heart disease prediction technique has three steps, which are data pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification. In this research, random forest classifier is applied for the feature extraction and decision tree classifier is applied for the generation of prediction results. However, random forest classifier will extract the information and decision tree will generate final classifier result. The authors show the results of proposed model using the Python platform. Moreover, the results are compared with support vector machine (SVM) and k-nearest neighbour classifier (KNN).