Document Type
Dissertation
Rights
This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only
Disciplines
Statistics, Computer Sciences
Abstract
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in Ireland, and probably, worldwide. According to the Health Service Executive (HSE) cardiovascular disease accounting for 36% of all deaths, and one important fact, 22% of premature deaths (under age 65) are from CVD.
Using data from the Heart Disease UCI Data Set (UCI Machine Learning), we use machine learning techniques to detect the presence or absence of heart disease in the patient according to 14 features provide for this dataset. The different results are compared based on accuracy performance, confusion matrix and area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve in order to choose the best model to fix the situation and provide a predictive model for detect heart disease. Finally, it is used a hierarchical learning technique and deep learning (H2O 3.8.2.6.) to compare the previous results.
Recommended Citation
Pereira, N. (2020). Using machine learning classification methods to detect the presence of heart disease. Masters Dissertation. Technological University Dublin.
Publication Details
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Technological University Dublin for the degree of M.Sc. in Computer Science (Data Analytics)