<![CDATA[Heart disease is a condition that ranks as the primary cause of death worldwide. Based on available data, over 36 million people have succumbed to non-communicable diseases, and heart disease falls within the category of non-communicable diseases. This research employs a heart disease dataset from the UCI Repository, consisting of 303 instances and 14 categorical features. In this research, the data were analyzed using the classification methods XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) and Random Forest, which can be applied with PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) as a feature selection technique to address the issue of irrelevant features. This issue can impact prediction performance on the heart disease dataset. From the results of the conducted research, the obtained values for the XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) model were 0.877, and for the Random Forest model, it was 0.874. On the other hand, in the model utilizing Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), the obtained AUC values are 0.913 for XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) and 0.918 for Random Forest. These research results demonstrate that PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) can enhance the AUC of heart disease prediction performance. Therefore, this research contributes to enhancing the precision and efficiency of heart disease patient data processing, which benefits heart disease diagnosis in terms of speed and accuracy.]]>
