“…These data often contain hidden patterns and relationships which can lead to improved diagnosis and treatment, and provides a platform to better understand the mechanisms governing almost all aspects of the medical domain [21]. Various data mining techniques, namely, decision tree [22][23][24][25][26][27][28], support vector machine (SVM) [24,25,27], artificial neural networks (ANN) [24,25,27,28], Naïve Bayes [28], Bayesian Networks [25], have been used for CVD diagnosis as black box and models generated were not clinically interpretable. On the other hand, the rules generated by decision trees are clinically interpretable, which is highly desirable in clinical applications [29].…”