Term Project Progress Report

Medical Decision Support System

18 March 2016

Submitted To : Submitted By:

Dr. Vatcharaporn Esichaikul Raja Vyshnavi (st118183)

Tata Rohit (st118238)

Sachham Man Buddhacharya (st117891)

Prithvi Raj (st118177)

Tejasree (st118187)
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S.NO TOPIC NAME PAGE
NUMBER
1 INTRODUCTION 2
1.1 OBJECTIVE 2
1.2 SCOPE 2
2 DATA 2
2.1 DATA SET 2
2.2 CONVERSION OF UCI DATA TO EXCEL 4
3 METHODOLOGY 6
3.1 MODEL 6
3.2 IMPLEMENTATION 6
3.2.1 SCREENSHOTS 6
4 REFERENCES 12
5 FUTUREWORK 12

1.Introduction

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 Heart diseases are one of the main cause of death worldwide. The diagnosis of heart diseases
needs clinical and pathological data. One of the common heart disease is Cardiovascular
disease. In our research, we have tried to predict the cardiovascular diseases using decision
trees.

Doctors do not possess expertise in all matters, there remains some grey area in their
diagnosis decision. Our system helps the doctor to make rigid decision and complete the
patient's diagnosis with higher level of precis

1.1 Objective

To develop a DSS for predicting Cardiovascular disease using

Prediction model.
To reduce the workload of the end user as the system can predict the
occurrence of a cardiovascular disease from clinical and pathological data

1.2 Scope

The scope of this DSS extends to the prediction of occurrence of a

cardiovascular disease using Decision Tree model.

2.Data

2.1 Data set

The data is retrieved from heart disease data from UCI machine learning repository. We have
specifically used the heart dataset of Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The data consist of 76 raw
attributes, of which only 13 have been used. The dataset consist of 303 instances of which 164
belonging to healthy person and 139 instances belonging to heart diseases. Some of the instances
contained missing values which were filled by random numbers.

Table 1- Clinical features and their description

Name Type Description

Age Continuous Age in years

Sex Discrete 1 = male

0 = female

Cp Discrete Chest pain type:

1 = typical angina
2 = atypical angina
3 = non-anginal pain
4 =asymptomatic

Trestbps Continuous Resting blood pressure (in

mm Hg)

Chol Continuous Serum cholesterol in mg/dl

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 Fbs Discrete Fasting blood sugar > 120
mg/dl:
1 = true
0 = false

Restecg Discrete Resting electrocardiographic results:

0 = normal
1 = having ST-T wave abnormality
2 =showing probable or define left
ventricular hypertrophy by Estescriteria

Thalach Continuous Maximum heart rate achieved

Exang Discrete Exercise induced angina:

1 = yes
0 = no

Old peak Continuous Depression induced by exercise relative to

rest

Slope Discrete The slope of the peak exercise segment :

1 = up sloping
2 = flat
3= downsloping

Ca Discrete Number of major vessels

colored by fluoroscopy that
ranged between 0 and 3.

Thal Discrete 3 = normal

6= fixed defect
7= reversible defect

Diagnosis Discrete Diagnosis classes:

0 = healthy
1= patient who is subject
to possible heart disease

2.2 Conversion of UCI data to excel

The Data retrieved from UCI machine learning library is in the form of plain text file
with comma as delimiter. The downloaded file is imported to Microsoft Excel,
individual data is extracted using space as delimiter in text import wizard. The
formatted data is saved in CSV format to be imported in RapidMiner software.

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 Figure. One Instance with 76 attributes

Figure. Collection of selected 13 attributes and the diagnosis result(0-4)

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 Figure. Excel data

3.Methodology

3.1 Model

In order to construct a DSS for Cardiovascular disease we use Decision Tree type model.

3.2 Implementation

3.2.1 Screenshots

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 Figure : Rapidminer Home page

Figure : Adding Data to the software.

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Figure : Locating the data on the system

Figure : Imported Data

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 Figure : Labeling a column

Figure : Choosing the type of role

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 Figure : Choosing label as the role

Figure : Storing the data in the repository

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 Figure : Decision Tree

5. Futurework

Based on the further training using the data set we expect to predict decision
accurately.

6. References

Pandey, A. K., Pandey, P., & Jaiswal, K. L. (2013). A heart disease prediction model using
decision tree. IUP Journal of Computer Sciences,7(3), 43.

Shouman, M., Turner, T., & Stocker, R. (2011, December). Using decision tree for diagnosing
heart disease patients. In Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference-
Volume 121 (pp. 23-30). Australian Computer Society, Inc..

Venkatalakshmi, B., & Shivsankar, M. (2014). Heart Disease Diagnosis Using Predictive
Data mining. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Engineering and
Technology (ICIET14), Tamil Nadu, India.

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