MLCardiovascularPrediction: Machine Learning-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

Like most diseases that affect a human's life, car-diovascular disease is dangerous and unwanted for anyone who has heard of it as it brings a high risk of death. In today's world, most deaths are caused by heart disease as it could come from age, heritage, smoking, and many factors that could seem normal, and it doesn't matter what part of the world you are in. There must be a way to know or predict if this person is at high risk of cardiovascular disease. This paper and project talk about six algorithms: K-Nearest-Neighbour (KNN), Decision Tree (DT), Naive Bayes, Neural Network, Logistic Regression, and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The results came between 60% to 70% in one dataset and from 80 % to 90 % in the second. Still, they mostly favor the Neural Network algorithm as it can learn and model around complex relationships. The SVM showed different outputs between the two datasets as one is significantly larger than the other, possibly due to the outliers in both datasets being different and more complex in the larger one. Cardiovascular disease can be very dangerous, but finding and discovering it soon can be a lifesaver. These algorithms also can help find and predict it, as it was shown with not just decent, but good and respectable success rates for each one.