Myocardial Infarction occurs
due to the destruction of heart tissue resulting from the obstruction of
the blood supply to the heart muscle. It refers to a heart attack which
is a major heart disease throughout the world. Machine learning
techniques can be engaged as a decision support system for predicting
myocardial infarction from a group of important predictive features that
may categorize the severe-risk patients and can provide guidance to
minimize the severity. In this research, we have collected myocardial
infarction patient's data to assess the classification performance of
two different ensemble based machine learning methods Bagging and
Boosting with five different base classifiers such as Support Vector
Machine, K-Nearest Neighbor, Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree, and Random
Forest for predicting myocardial infarction in an earlier stage. It
should be understood that finding important attributes can help to
increase performance. Experimental result showed that the Bagging with
Random Forest ensemble method outperformed other methods by achieving
higher accuracy of 96.50%.