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First, a novel feature selection combined method based on a genetic algorithm (FSCM-GA) is proposed, in which different classifiers are used to select features in combination with a genetic algorithm and combine them to generate an optimal feature subset. Furthermore, an enhanced voting method (EVM) is proposed to integrate classifiers, with the aim of improving the classification results in which the prediction probability values are close to the threshold. Finally, the predictive competence of the proposed model was validated on three public datasets and five evaluation metrics (accuracy, AUC, F-score, Log loss and Brier score). 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