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The document discusses the importance of heart health and the rising prevalence of heart disease, emphasizing the need for accurate prediction methods. It outlines the aim to develop software using BAT feature selection and back propagation Neural Network algorithms to predict heart disease in patients. The study highlights the significance of utilizing large volumes of medical data to improve diagnostic accuracy and support healthcare practitioners.

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Chapter OneLTUCL7QDHN (2)

The document discusses the importance of heart health and the rising prevalence of heart disease, emphasizing the need for accurate prediction methods. It outlines the aim to develop software using BAT feature selection and back propagation Neural Network algorithms to predict heart disease in patients. The study highlights the significance of utilizing large volumes of medical data to improve diagnostic accuracy and support healthcare practitioners.

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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Heart is the main part of our body. Our life depends on the working of the heart. If the heart fails

to work, it will affect the other parts of our body including brain, kidney etc. Heart disease is the

term that indicates the non-functioning of the heart. Several factors increase the risk of heart

disease which includes cholesterol, blood pressure, and lack of physical exercise, smoking and

obesity. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that by 2030, nearly 23.6 million

people have died because of heart disease. In order to minimize the risk of heart disease

prediction of heart disease is a must to discover the disease based on symptoms, physical check-

up and signs of the patient body. Discovering and predicting disease is a tedious task in medical

environment. Discovery is a multilayered problem which may have negative presumptions and

unpredictable effects.

So, the HealthCare Industry maintains huge amount of complex data about patients, resources of

the hospital, disease diagnosis, electronic patient records, equipment etc. now this becomes the

knowledge source for data extraction which can save negative presumptions and unpredictable

effects. The good advantage as a result of diagnosis by a doctor is very active and intelligent

prediction.

Neural Networks has been widely used in the medical field for forecasting disease. NN has been

established of their potentials in many domains related with medical forecasting and diagnosis

disease. NNs can never replace the human experts but can help them in decision making,
classifying, screening and to cross-verify their diagnosis. The dataset has several attributes like

age, sex, blood pressure and blood sugar which are used to predict the risk of patients getting a

heart disease.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The clinical symptoms of the heart disease complicate the prognosis, as it is influenced by many

factors like functional and pathologic appearance. This could subsequently delay the prognosis

of the disease. Hence, there is a need for the invention of newer concepts to improve the

prediction accuracy with short span. Disease prognosis through numerous factors or symptoms is

a multi-layer problem even that could lead to a false assumption. Therefore, an attempt is made

to bridge the knowledge and the experience of the experts and to build a system that fairly

supports the diagnosing process.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

Aim

The aim of this project to develop software for predicting heart disease in patients using BAT

feature selection and back propagation Neural Network Algorithms.

The following are the objectives:

To develop a software that will predict heart disease in patients


To design the new combination of a classifier to forecast the presence or absence of heart

disease.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Large volume of medical data are available in medical industry and acts as a great source of

predicting useful and hidden facts in almost all medical problems. These facts would really in

turn, help the practitioners to make accurate predictions. The techniques of Artificial Neural

Network concepts have contribute in yielding highest prediction accuracy over medical data.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The scope of this study is to develop a model that will predict heart disease in patients, using

BAT feature selection and back propagation Neural Network Algorithms, the software is develop

for clinical use and health practitioners in predicting heart disease in patients.

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