ML - Heart Disease Prediction Using Logistic Regression

Heart disease is one of the main cause of death in world so detecting and predicting it early is important for better treatment and prevention. Machine learning become very helpful in healthcare for predicting conditions like heart disease. One method used is logistic regression which helps to predict the likelihood of something happening like whether a person has heart disease based on input features. In this article we will understand how Logistic regression is used to predict the chances of heart disease in patients.

1: Importing Necessary Libraries

We will import Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Statsmodels and sklearn library in python.

• statsmodels: for statistical modeling for fitting logistic regression.
• sklearn: Provides tools for machine learning modeling.

2: Data Preparation

The dataset is from an ongoing cardiovascular study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The classification goal is to predict whether the patient has 10-year risk of future coronary heart disease (CHD). The dataset provides the patients information. It includes over 4,000 records and 15 attributes.

You can download dataset from here.

2.1 Loading and Handling Missing Values from the Dataset

We will load the dataset and drop the irrelevant features from the the dataset like "education" and rename columns also.

• disease_df.pd.read_csv(): This is used to read the contents of CSV file.
• disease_df, dropna(axis=0, inplace=True): This removes any rows with missing values (NaN) from the DataFrame.
• disease_df.TenYearCHD.value_counts(): This prints the count of unique values in the TenYearCHD column which likely indicates whether a patient has heart disease.

Output:

Output:

3: Splitting the Dataset into Test and Train Sets

We will split the dataset into training and testing portions. But before that we will transform our data by scaling all the features using StandardScaler.

• X=preprocessing.StandardScaler().fit(X).transform(X): This scales the features in X to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1 using StandardScaler. Scaling is important for many machine learning models, especially when the features have different units or magnitudes.
• Training set (70% of data, X_train and y_train)
• Test set (30% of data, X_test and y_test)
• random_state=4 ensures the split is reproducible.

Output:

Train set: (2625, 6) (2625,)
Test set: (1126, 6) (1126,)

4: Exploratory Data Analysis of Heart Disease Dataset

In Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) we perform EDA on the heart disease dataset to understand and gain insights into the dataset before building a predictive model for heart disease.

4.1: Ten Year's CHD Record of all the patients available in the dataset:

• sns.countplot(x='TenYearCHD', data=disease_df, palettte="BuGn_r"): creates a count plot using Seaborn which visualizes the distribution of the values in the TenYearCHD column showing how many individuals have heart disease (1) vs. how many don’t (0).

Output:

The count plot shows a high imbalance in the dataset where the majority of individuals (over 3000) do not have heart disease (label 0) while only a small number (around 500) have heart disease (label 1).

4.2: Counting number of patients affected by CHD where (0= Not Affected; 1= Affected)

Output:

• Blue bars: Indicate the absence of heart disease.
• White space (gaps): These represent the presence of heart disease.

5: Fitting Logistic Regression Model for Heart Disease Prediction

We will create a simple logistic regression model for prediction.

• logreg=LogisticRegression(): This creates an instance of the LogisticRegression model.
• logreg.fit(X_train, y_train): This trains the logistic regression model using the training data (X_train for features and y_train for the target).
• y_pred=logreg.predict(X_test): This uses the trained logistic regression model to make predictions on the test set (X_test). The predicted values are stored in y_pred.

6: Evaluating Logistic Regression Model

Output:

Accuracy of the model is = 0.8490230905861457

Plotting Confusion Matrix

Confusion Matrix is a performance evaluation tool used to assess the accuracy of a classification model. It is used to evaluate the performance of our logistic regression model in predicting heart disease helping us understand how well the model distinguishes between positive and negative cases.

• cm=confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred): Compute confusion matrix by comparing the actual values (y_test) with the predicted values(y_pred). It returns a 2x2 matrix showing true positives, true negatives, false positives and false negatives.

Output:

The model performs well at predicting no heart disease (class 0) but poorly predicts heart disease (class 1) result in an imbalanced classification performance. To enhance model performance techniques such as class balancing, adjust thresholds or experiment with different algorithms help to achieve better results to correctly identify individuals with heart disease.