hybrid ANN-GA model to prediction of bivariate binary responses: application to joint prediction of occurrence of heart block and death in patients with myocardial infarction

ABSTRACT

Background: In medical studies, when the joint prediction about occurrence of two events should be anticipated, a statistical bivariate model is used. Due to the limitations of usual statistical models, other methods such as Artificial Neural Network [ANN] and hybrid models could be used. In this paper, we propose a hybrid Artificial Neural Network-Genetic Algorithm [ANN-GA] model to prediction the occurrence of heart block and death in myocardial infarction [Ml] patients simultaneously