A Comparative Study of Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Heart Disease Prediction Using Patients' Vital Signs

The aim of this study is to enhance the accuracy and reduce the time complexity of predicting cardiac illnesses by utilizing patient vital signs exclusively. The importance of timely treatment in critical situations where quick decisions are necessary is emphasized here. Precise predictions have the potential to prevent health deterioration and even save lives. By analyzing vast datasets (images, texts etc.) and detecting subtle patterns, quantum machine learning algorithms (QML) can offer more accurate results in a shorter period compared to classical algorithms. The feature set used here is a novel one to be used for the quick detection and early prediction of cardiovascular diseases, and also a convenient one for this task. To predict heart diseases or abnormalities, both classical and quantum machine learning techniques have been employed in this paper. We have developed four models based on Support Vector Machine (SVM), Neural Network (NN), Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM), and Quantum Neural Network (QNN) and compared their performance on a balanced sample of a vast dataset for heart diseases prediction. After comparing the models' performance, we found that Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM) performed best with an accuracy of 75% and to-fold Cross-validation score of 80%.