Recommendation systems have emerged as a response to overload in terms of increased amounts of information online, which has become a problem for users regarding the time spent on their search and the amount of information retrieved by it. In the field of recommendation systems in education, the relevance of recommended educational resources will improve the student’s learning process, and hence the importance of being able to suitably and reliably ensure relevant, useful information. The purpose of this systematic review is to analyze the work undertaken on recommendation systems that support educational practices with a view to acquiring information related to the type of education and areas dealt with, the developmental approach used, and the elements recommended, as well as being able to detect any gaps in this area for future research work. A systematic review was carried out that included 98 articles from a total of 2937 found in main databases (IEEE, ACM, Scopus and WoS), about which it was able to be established that most are geared towards recommending educational resources for users of formal education, in which the main approaches used in recommendation systems are the collaborative approach, the content-based approach, and the hybrid approach, with a tendency to use machine learning in the last two years. Finally, possible future areas of research and development in this field are presented.

Voice pathology disorders can be effectively detected using computer-aided voice pathology classification tools. These tools can diagnose voice pathologies at an early stage and offering appropriate treatment. This study aims to develop a powerful feature extraction voice pathology detection tool based on Deep Learning. In this paper, a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was applied to a dataset of voice pathology to maximize the classification accuracy. This study also proposes a distinguished training method combined with various training strategies in order to generalize the application of the proposed system on a wide range of problems related to voice disorders. The proposed system has tested using a voice database, namely the Saarbrücken voice database (SVD). The experimental results show the proposed CNN method for speech pathology detection achieves accuracy up to 95.41%. It also obtains 94.22% and 96.13% for F1-Score and Recall. The proposed system shows a high capability of the real-clinical application that offering a fast-automatic diagnosis and treatment solutions within 3 s to achieve the classification accuracy.

The large-scale parallel computation that became available on the new generation of graphics processing units (GPUs) and on cloud-based services can be exploited for use in healthcare data analysis. Furthermore, computation workstations suited for deep learning are usually equipped with multiple GPUs allowing for workload distribution among multiple GPUs for larger datasets while exploiting parallelism in each GPU. In this paper, we utilize distributed and parallel computation techniques to efficiently analyze healthcare data using deep learning techniques. We demonstrate the scalability and computational benefits of this approach with a case study of longitudinal assessment of approximately 150 000 type 2 diabetic patients. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the fourth case of mortality worldwide with rising prevalence. T2DM leads to adverse events such as acute myocardial infarction, major amputations, and avoidable hospitalizations. This paper aims to establish a relation between laboratory and medical assessment variables with the occurrence of the aforementioned adverse events and its prediction using machine learning techniques. We use a raw database provided by Basque Health Service, Spain, to conduct this study. This database contains 150 156 patients diagnosed with T2DM, from whom 321 laboratory and medical assessment variables recorded over four years are available. Predictions of adverse events on T2DM patients using both classical machine learning and deep learning techniques were performed and evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score as metrics. The best performance for the prediction of acute myocardial infarction is obtained by linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and support vector machines (SVM) both balanced and weight models with an accuracy of 97%; hospital admission for avoidable causes best performance is obtained by LDA balanced and SVMs balanced both with an accuracy of 92%. For the prediction of the incidence of at least one adverse event, the model with the best performance is the recurrent neural network trained with a balanced dataset with an accuracy of 94.6%. The ability to perform and compare these experiments was possible through the use of a workstation with multi-GPUs. This setup allows for scalability to larger datasets. Such models are also cloud ready and can be deployed on similar architectures hosted on AWS for even larger datasets.

Sleep apnea, a prevalent disorder affecting millions of people worldwide, has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its significant impact on public health and quality of life. The integration of wearable devices and artificial intelligence technologies has revolutionized the treatment and diagnosis of sleep apnea. Leveraging the portability and sensors of wearable devices, coupled with AI algorithms, has enabled real-time monitoring and accurate analysis of sleep patterns, facilitating early detection and personalized interventions for people suffering from sleep apnea. This article presents a systematic review of the current state of the art in identifying the latest artificial intelligence techniques, wearable devices, data types, and preprocessing methods employed in the diagnosis of sleep apnea. Four databases were used and the results before screening report 249 studies published between 2020 and 2024. After screening, 28 studies met the inclusion criteria. This review reveals a trend in recent years where methodologies involving patches, clocks and rings have been increasingly integrated with convolutional neural networks, producing promising results, particularly when combined with transfer learning techniques. We observed that the outcomes of various algorithms and their combinations also rely on the quantity and type of data utilized for training. The findings suggest that employing multiple combinations of different neural networks with convolutional layers contributes to the development of a more precise system for early diagnosis of sleep apnea.

Lifelong learning enables professionals to update their skills to face challenges in their changing work environments. In view of the wide range of courses on offer, it is important for professionals to have recommendation systems that can link them to suitable courses. Based on this premise and on our previous research, this paper proposes the use of ontology to model job sectors and areas of knowledge, and to represent professional skills that can be automatically updated using the profiled data and machine learning for clustering entities. A three-stage hybrid system is proposed for the recommendation process: semantic filtering, content filtering and heuristics. The proposed system was evaluated with a set of more than 100 user profiles that were used in a previous version of the proposed recommendation system, which allowed the two systems to be compared. The proposed recommender showed 15% improvement when using ontology and clustering with DBSCAN in recall and serendipity metrics, and a six-point increase in harmonic mean over the stored data-based recommender system.

Nowadays, social networks have become highly relevant in the professional field, in terms of the possibility of sharing profiles, skills and jobs. LinkedIn has become the social network par excellence, owing to its content in professional and training information and where there are also endorsements, which are validations of the skills of users that can be taken into account in the recruitment process, as well as in the recommender system. In order to determine how endorsements influence Lifelong Learning course recommendations for professional skills development and enhancement, a new version of our Lifelong Learning course recommendation system is proposed. The recommender system is based on ontology, which allows modelling the data of knowledge areas and job performance sectors to represent professional skills of users obtained from social networks. Machine learning techniques are applied to group entities in the ontology and make predictions of new data. The recommender system has a semantic core, content-based filtering, and heuristics to perform the formative suggestion. In order to validate the data model and test the recommender system, information was obtained from web-based lifelong learning courses and information was collected from LinkedIn professional profiles, incorporating the skills endorsements into the user profile. All possible settings of the system were tested. The best result was obtained in the setting based on the spatial clustering algorithm based on the density of noisy applications. An accuracy of 94% and 80% recall was obtained.