Classification of Coronary Artery Disease Using Different Machine Learning Algorithms

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) takes place in the category of fatal diseases resulting in death in our country and around the world. Each year about 340 thousand patients lost their lives due to CAD in Turkey. Early diagnosis is essential to reduce risk and prolong lifetime of these patients for diseases that require long-term treatment having death risk like CAD. For this reason, classification of CAD by using medical data processing and machine learning algorithms are important in order to develop assistive or expert systems for physicians. In this study, five different machine learning algorithms were applied to estimate whether patients in the Z-Alizadeh Sani data set extracted from the UCI machine learning pool are CAD. Accuracy, precision, recall, specificity and F1 score were compared as classification performance indicators to evaluate decision tree, random forest (RF), support vector machines (SVM), nearest neighborhood (k-NN) and multi-layer sensor (MLP) methods. According to the evaluation results, the MLP method gave high classification accuracy with 90%. It also appears that RF performs relatively better than other metrics. This results, show that these classification algorithms can be use for helping healthcare systems.