This paper explores the use of quantum-based machine learning algorithms for predicting heart disease. Traditional methods face challenges in processing complex healthcare data efficiently. To address this, quantum computing techniques, including dimensionality reduction and feature optimization, are applied. Quantum machine learning models, such as Variational Quantum Classifier (VQC), Quantum Support Vector Classification (QSVC) and Quantum Neural Networks (QNN), leverage these enriched datasets. This convergence of quantum computing and healthcare has the potential to transform medical care, cut costs, and save lives, presenting a significant advancement in predictive medicine.
This paper explores the use of quantum-based machine learning algorithms for predicting heart disease. Traditional methods face challenges in processing complex healthcare data efficiently. To address this, quantum computing techniques, including dimensionality reduction and feature optimization, are applied. Quantum machine learning models, such as Variational Quantum Classifier (VQC), Quantum Support Vector Classification (QSVC) and Quantum Neural Networks (QNN), leverage these enriched datasets. This convergence of quantum computing and healthcare has the potential to transform medical care, cut costs, and save lives, presenting a significant advancement in predictive medicine.
Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common reasons of increases the global death rate, suggesting initial detection and timely treatment crucial. While traditional machine learning models have been effective in predicting heart disease, Quantum Computing (QC) introduces new possibilities for improving accuracy and processing speed. In this regard the application of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) approaches-categorically, Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) and Quantum Support Vector Classification (QSVC)-to predict heart disease using key health indicators such as present-age, levels of cholesterol, Blood Pressure (BP), and lifestyle choices. QNN is utilized to recognize complex patterns in patient data, leveraging deep learning to understand intricate connections between various risk factors. Meanwhile, QSVC takes advantage of QC ability to compute large amounts of information at once, making classification faster and more precise. Both models are trained and tested on a heart disease dataset and compared with traditional machine learning methods to assess their accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. The results show that while quantum and classical models achieve similar accuracy, quantum computing significantly reduces processing time, making it highly efficient for analyzing large datasets. This study highlights the strength of QC in transforming medical diagnostics, offering faster and more reliable predictive models for early heart disease detection. By integrating quantum algorithms into healthcare, this research contributes to the advancement of AI-driven medical solutions, resulting in more efficient and individual patient care.
Heart disease is one of the major global causes of death, requiring early and precise detection for efficient treatment.With advancements in quantum computing, Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) have gained recognition as a valuable technique for improving learning models in medical diagnosis.This study further explores the application of VQC-based models for heart disease prediction, leveraging quantum computing to enhance classification accuracy.A hybrid quantum-classical model has been developed, which combines classical preprocessing for feature extraction from patient datasets with a VQC-based classifier for medical predictions.The quantum circuit using variational parameters is optimized to reduce the loss function and facilitate effective learning from complex medical data.This proposed approach is tested on benchmark heart disease datasets and evaluated against classical Machine Learning (ML) models, including Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Random Forests, and Neural Networks.The experimental results show that VQC-based models achieve high accuracy and outperform classical models, notably on high-dimensional, non-linearly separable data.The quantum advantage of VQCs lies in their ability to encode and process data in a huge Hilbert space.However, challenges such as noise in near-term quantum devices and scalability issues remain key.This research underscores the efficacy of VQCbased quantum machine learning in medical diagnosis, paving the way for future studies on quantum-enhanced healthcare solutions.Further advancements in quantum hardware and hybrid learning techniques could allow quantum-assisted heart disease prediction to become an effective clinical tool.
Abstract Quantum machine learning (QML) is an emerging field that combines the power of quantum computing with machine learning (ML) techniques to solve complex problems. In recent years, QML algorithms have shown tremendous potential in various applications such as image recognition, natural language processing, health care, finance, and drug discovery. QML algorithms aim to reduce computation costs and solve complex problems beyond the scope of classical machine learning algorithms. In this article, we study the performance of two QML algorithms, that is, quantum support vector classifiers (QSVC) and variational quantum classifiers (VQC), for chronic heart disease prediction in Healthcare 4.0. The performance of the two classifiers is assessed using different evaluation metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score. The authors concluded the superior performance of QSVC over VQC with an accuracy of 82%.
Nowadays, quantum machine learning is attracting great interest in a wide range of fields due to its potential superior performance and capabilities. The massive increase in computational capacity and speed of quantum computers can lead to a quantum leap in the healthcare field. Heart disease seriously threatens human health since it is the leading cause of death worldwide. Quantum machine learning methods can propose effective solutions to predict heart disease and aid in early diagnosis. In this study, an ensemble machine learning model based on quantum machine learning classifiers is proposed to predict the risk of heart disease. The proposed model is a bagging ensemble learning model where a quantum support vector classifier was used as a base classifier. Furthermore, in order to make the model’s outcomes more explainable, the importance of every single feature in the prediction is computed and visualized using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) framework. In the experimental study, other stand-alone quantum classifiers, namely, Quantum Support Vector Classifier (QSVC), Quantum Neural Network (QNN), and Variational Quantum Classifier (VQC) are applied and compared with classical machine learning classifiers such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The experimental results on the Cleveland dataset reveal the superiority of QSVC compared to the others, which explains its use in the proposed bagging model. The Bagging-QSVC model outperforms all aforementioned classifiers with an accuracy of 90.16% while showing great competitiveness compared to some state-of-the-art models using the same dataset. The results of the study indicate that quantum machine learning classifiers perform better than classical machine learning classifiers in predicting heart disease. In addition, the study reveals that the bagging ensemble learning technique is effective in improving the prediction accuracy of quantum classifiers.
To forecast heart problems, an innovative hybrid technique combining quantum computing with machine learning approaches is presented. For the preprocessing stage, normalization and dimensionality reduction techniques are used on a dataset of 270 patients' records and 13 clinical variables to make them appropriate for a 4-qubit quantum computer. Some traditional machine learning algorithms, including convolutional neural networks (CNN), support vector machines (SVM), and XGBoost, are trained to establish baselines in relation to other methods. Under the guidance of the SPSA algorithm, a quantum-inspired classifier called VQC is developed using a parameterized quantum circuit that includes rotation and entanglement operations. A quantitative study of crucial performance metrics reveals that the suggested quantum technique outperforms conventional methods in tests. The VQC classifier has the highest accuracy (85.2%), precision (86.4%), and F1 score (82.6%), while matching the SVM classifier's ROC-AUC score of 88.9%. Although with lower dimensionality, this research shows how quantum-based machine learning may find complex correlations among variables. This study is intended to serve as a preliminary concept for using quantum machine learning for healthcare applications, especially for increasing the accuracy rate and lowering misdiagnosis errors.
Effective and accurate diagnosis of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart failure is crucial for timely medical intervention and improving patient survival rates. Machine learning has revolutionized diagnostic methods in recent years by developing classification models that detect diseases based on selected features. However, these classification tasks are often highly imbalanced, limiting the performance of classical models. Quantum models offer a promising alternative, exploiting their ability to express complex patterns by operating in a higher-dimensional computational space through superposition and entanglement. These unique properties make quantum models potentially more effective in addressing the challenges of imbalanced datasets. This work evaluates the potential of quantum classifiers in healthcare, focusing on Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) and Quantum Support Vector Machines (QSVMs), comparing them with popular classical models. The study is based on three well-known healthcare datasets—Prostate Cancer, Heart Failure, and Diabetes.The results indicate that QSVMs outperform QNNs across all datasets due to their susceptibility to overfitting. Furthermore, quantum models prove the ability to overcome classical models in scenarios with high dataset imbalance. Although preliminary, these findings highlight the potential of quantum models in healthcare classification tasks and lead the way for further research in this domain.