Enhancing Heart Disease Diagnosis with Meta-Heuristic Algorithms: A Combined HHO and PSO Approach
摘要
Heart Disease (HD) significantly impacts global health, making its accurate prediction critical for reducing death rates. This paper proposes a novel optimization-based HD prediction system leveraging metaheuristic algorithms. Harris Hawk Optimization (HHO) is employed for optimal feature selection due to its efficiency in high-dimensional datasets, faster convergence, and reduced risk of overfitting, while Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) optimizes the weights of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for its computational efficiency and robust global optimization capabilities. The proposed method is evaluated on the Cleveland and Statlog datasets using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and AUC. It achieves 92.45% and 91.51% accuracy for the Cleveland and Statlog datasets, respectively, outperforming existing optimization techniques. Moreover, the proposed method outperforms other feature and weight optimization techniques, showcasing its effectiveness in enhancing HD diagnosis.
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