Agile Approach of Predicting Cardiac Disease using ANN Based on Feature Selection

Abstract

Recent study shows that almost 30% of total global deaths are caused by heart disease. Medical diagnosis is done mainly by specialist's skill and experience but sometime cases are reported of wrong diagnosis therefore the doctor advises patients to take various tests for further analysis which is very expensive and time consuming as medical databases are huge and cannot be processed quickly. In this paper we have predicted heart disease possibility in patients with the help of neural network with Feature selection. This approach was applied to the dataset to get the better results and to increase the performance by reducing the unnecessary attributes from the existing dataset.