The publication of a patient’s dataset is essential for various medical investigations and decision-making. Currently, significant focus has been established to protect privacy during data publishing. The existing privacy models for multiple sensitive attributes do not concentrate on the correlation among the attributes, which in turn leads to much utility loss. An efficient model Heap Bucketization-anonymity (HBA) has been proposed to balance privacy and utility with multiple sensitive attributes. The Heap Bucketization-anonymity model used anatomization to vertically partition the dataset into 1. Quasi-identifier table and 2. Sensitive attribute table. The quasi-identifier is anonymized by implementing k-anonymity and slicing and the sensitive attributes are anonymized by applying slicing and Heap Bucketization. The metrics Normalized Certainty Penalty and KL-divergence have been used to compute the utility loss in the patient dataset. The experimental results show that the HB-anonymity can significantly achieve high privacy with less utility loss than other existing models. The HB-anonymity model not only balances the utility and privacy also eradicates the i) background knowledge attack, ii) quasi-identifier attack iii) membership attack, iv) non-membership attack and v) fingerprint correlation attack.
14 February 2024 in Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering
The automotive industry is experiencing a revolutionary wave due to the rapid spread of electric vehicles (EVs), which is paving the way for a fundamental and long-lasting revolution in the way we approach transportation. The global movement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the environmental impact of traditional internal combustion engine vehicles has seen a significant boost in the popularity of electric vehicles as people come together to support environmentally conscious and sustainable mobility solutions. But the ecology surrounding electric vehicles must continue to flourish if the particular problems that EVs present are to be successfully addressed. Chief among these are the formidable foes of range anxiety and battery health management. Range anxiety is a real issue felt by many potential EV owners worry about becoming stuck because their battery has run out before reaching their destination. This psychological barrier is very noticeable and makes present and future EV owners doubtful. In addition, the longevity and health of EV batteries are essential to their continued effectiveness and affordability. The driving range and operating efficiency of the vehicle are directly affected by the gradual degradation of the battery due to several factors like aging, charging patterns, and temperature. This research presents an integrative and holistic approach to address these pressing issues, enhancing and elevating the whole EV ownership experience by combining Electric Vehicle Health Monitoring (EVHM) with Electric Vehicle Range Prediction (EVRP) and Route Planning (EVRP). Combining these three essential elements creates an all-encompassing plan created to not only lessen these enormous obstacles but also accelerate the switch to electric vehicles by giving consumers the knowledge and assurance they require for a smooth, eco-friendly, and sustainable mobility in the future.
16 October 2024 in Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering
This research work develops a new framework that combines patient feedback with evidence-based best practices across disease states to improve drug recommendations. It employs BERT as its free-text processing engine to deal with sentiment judgment and classification. The functionality of the system, named `PharmaBERT`, includes acceptance of drug review data as a comprehensive input, drug categorization when dealing with a wide range of treatments and fine-tuning the BERT-based model for gaining positive or negative sentiment towards specific medications. PharmaBERT categorizes various drugs and fine-tunes the BERT structure to perceive lots of possible sentiments for specific medications. Consequently, PharmaBERT brings all its training and optimization capabilities together and through this, the system reaches a higher accuracy of up to 91% thus showcasing the potency of the model in capturing patient sentiments. While being a BERT spin-off, PharmaBERT utilizes its own set of experienced techniques to comprehend and sense the health-related text input given by the patient, doctor, or pharmacist. It uses transfer learning, that is, it learns from language representations to adapt quickly to the intricacies of drug reviewing. Through PharmaBERT, healthcare professionals may expand their diagnoses with insights from patient feedback to constitute more neutral decisions.
1 February 2025 in Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Ever since the rise of human civilization, more and more diseases have been discovered with the rapid growth of medical knowledge. This sheer volume of information makes it hard for humans to memorize or even utilize it efficiently. Thus, machine learning emerged as a powerful tool for complex calculations by offering a solution to this challenge. This paper intends to use deep learning and machine learning algorithms to develop a predictive model that can recognize potential diseases based on symptoms. The model is then seamlessly integrated into a text-based disease prediction assistant chatbot that serves as a communication platform between the users and the system. The algorithms researched for the disease prediction models are k-nearest neighbours (KNN), support vector machines (SVM), random forest, and neural networks. After that, a chatbot application is created by integrating long short-term memory (LSTM), natural language toolkit (NLTK) libraries, and Telegram. As a result, the SVM models demonstrated excellent performance by achieving an accuracy of 92.24%, closely followed by random forest with 92.23%, KNN with 91.57%, and artificial neural network (ANN) with 91.52% accuracy. In short, this paper presents a potential solution for a more accurate disease prediction tool by implementing the best disease prediction model with the chatbot models together.
30 September 2024 in International Journal on Robotics, Automation and Sciences
Due to the vast amount of publicly available online data, people may find it difficult to obtain relevant information to find food or meals that match their taste and health while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The overload of information makes it difficult to separate relevant, personalized information from massive volumes of data. Recommendation systems (RS) are suggestion system that provides users with information that they may be interested in. With RS, this enormous amount of information is filtered and analyzed for further insights. This paper will explore several generations of recommender systems in the healthcare industry. This paper offers a thorough analysis of the current state-of-the-art recommender systems focusing on the grouping, methods, application and evaluation metrics. In addition, several challenges for further research and improvement in this domain are also outlined in the paper.
14 February 2025 in Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering
Tumors are a deadly condition often triggered by a range of abnormal modifications and genetic abnormalities. Early tumor diagnosis is essential due to the highly concerned nature of the disease. Early detection and treatment of tumors can significantly reduce mortality rates. This paper presents a model for tumor segmentation in medical imaging that uses the U-NET architecture to increase precision. The model’s encoding and decoding processes have been applied with skip connections to boost performance while simplifying model training. Images were cropped around the lower abdominal regions, and all images used in the study were then resized to 256*256 pixels for standardization. The proposed model deals with the class imbalance using data augmentation and oversampling. The experiments achieved a dice score of 0.853±0.02; F-score of 0.905±0.02; and a sensitivity of 0.897±0.02, compared with various existing models. As part of the model’s application, the pytorch-lightning library is used to successfully identify lung cancer scans, thereby proving to be a precise and efficient method of tumor identification. Accordingly, the study emphasizes the accuracy and speed of the applied model as a useful instrument for the earliest detection of tumors. The proposed approach helps to achieve more relevant and accurate segmentation and thus provides enhancements in medical images analysis if such challenges as an imbalance data set are well handled.