The document presents a survey on predicting heart disease using machine learning algorithms, highlighting the need for more accurate predictive tools beyond traditional medical methods, which only offer 67% accuracy. It reviews various machine learning approaches such as decision trees, support vector machines, and neural networks, and emphasizes the potential of deep learning to enhance predictive accuracy by utilizing large and complex datasets. The paper also discusses the challenges faced in the area, including the need for data pre-processing and feature selection to improve algorithm performance.