IJoICT (International Journal on Information and Communication Technology)
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2026): Vol.12 No.1 Jun 2026

Improving the Accuracy of the C4.5 Algorithm in Heart Disease Prediction Using Bagging and Information Gain

Ernawati (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Ade Candra (Unknown)
Syahril Efendi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Jun 2026

Abstract

Class imbalance is a common challenge in data classification, where the majority class significantly outnumbers the minority class, leading to a decrease in algorithm performance, particularly for the C4.5 algorithm. This study aims to address this problem by proposing a combination of Bootstrap Aggregation (Bagging) and Information Gain (IG). The IG method is employed for feature selection using a threshold of > 0.02 to select the most relevant attributes, while Bagging functions to enhance the stability and accuracy of the classification model. The experiment was conducted using a diabetes dataset from UCI with 10-fold cross-validation validation. The results showed that the C4.5+Bagging model achieved the highest accuracy at 95.96%, while the proposed C4.5+IG+Bagging combination reached an accuracy of 94.42%, a significant increase from the baseline C4.5 algorithm's accuracy of 89.04%. These findings demonstrate that the proposed method combination is effective in improving classification performance on imbalanced data

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijoict

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Environmental Science

Description

nternational Journal of Information Communication Technology (IJoICT) is a peer-reviewed Journal. This journal includes novel ideas on ICT, state of the art technique implementations, and study cases on developing countries. This journal fully acknowledges the articles that emphasize a balanced ...