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Learning decision rules from incomplete biochemical risk factor indicators to predict cardiovascular risk level for adult patients

This study aims to learn decision rules from input dataset using decision tree learning as a supervised classification method to predict cardiovascular risk level for adult patients (above 30-year-old). Dataset for this study is provided by a blood chemical lab from a private hospital in Southern Jakarta and used under permission. The experiment results using CART algorithm found an optimum decision tree to represent decision rule made previously by a Physician in predicting Cardiovascular risk level. The with a 9 tree-depth of 13 features that achieved 97.3 % training accuracy and 96.8 % testing accuracy respectively. Further decision tree simplification discovers a set of rules to predict level of Cardiovascular risk despite incomplete predictors as input.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/cyberneticscom.2017.8311707

Publish Year: 2017