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Pragash K and Jayabharathy J, “Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for Heart Abnormality Classification with Effective Feature Selection”, Journal of Machine and Computing, pp. 720-729, April 2025, doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202505057.
