An Intelli MVC: An intelligent majority voting and heuristic-based hybrid classifier to predict high blood pressure

Abstract

High Blood Pressure (HBP) is one of the major significant medical concerns of many people around the globe today. HBP is so common symptom many people across the globe are experiencing, irrespective of age, gender, region, and religion. HBP prediction ahead of time can help the person to avoid the consequences such as heart stroke, kidney failure, eye damage, sexual dysfunction, and even death. HBP prediction in advance is a challenging issue as it is associated with many biopsychosocial factors. Heuristic and meta-heuristic-based Machine Learning Models (MLM) exclusively supervised machine learning techniques are becoming part and parcel of medical data diagnosis. However, the reliability of outcome, usability, and understandability of such stand-alone models in processing medical data in real-time are not up to the mark. To overcome such limitations, in this paper we proposed an intelligent majority voting and heuristic-based user-friendly hybrid classifier to predict HBP (An Intelli MOC). The model considers AA-AOC (Anger level, Anxiety level-Age, Obesity level, and Cholesterol level) of a person to predict the HBP of a person. The proposed model is said to be majority vote-based and hybrid as it considers the output of three classifiers and assigns the count for each decision class. The model is said to be heuristic-based as it uses a mathematical and Fuzzy approach in obtaining the fuzzified values of each attribute in AA-AOC. The experiments are conducted on real-time data set collected from a medical diagnostic center Doctor C, Hyderabad, India. The model is executed on 1200 data records, 65% of data is used to train the model and 35% of data is used to test the model. The output of the model proved that the proposed model outperformed in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure compared with all available state-of-the-art, existing MLM.