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Sarah Shafqat1,2, Maryyam Fayyaz3, Hasan Ali Khattak4
1Department of basic and Applied Sciences, International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Summary
A new hybrid deep learning technique, Louvain Mani-Hierarchical Fold Learning, shows promise for medical diagnostics. This healthcare analytics approach aids in predicting diseases like Dengue Fever and Covid-19, improving patient outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Big Data Analytics
Background:
- The exponential growth of healthcare data necessitates advanced analytics for effective decision-making.
- Accurate and timely disease diagnosis, particularly for infectious diseases like Dengue Fever and Covid-19, is critical for reducing mortality.
- Challenges persist in the early diagnosis of conditions such as Diabetes and associated comorbidities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose and validate a novel hybrid deep learning technique for medical diagnostics.
- To leverage healthcare big data for improved disease prediction and patient management.
- To introduce the Louvain Mani-Hierarchical Fold Learning healthcare analytics approach.
Main Methods:
- Development of a hybrid deep learning technique: Louvain Mani-Hierarchical Fold Learning.
- Validation using real-time datasets including Dengue Fever, Covid-19, and other infectious diseases.
- Application on endocrine diagnostic data derived from a large cohort of patients.
Main Results:
- Demonstrated maximum 0.952 correlations between clusters using Spearman correlation on comorbidities data.
- Achieved predictive accuracies of 0.727, 0.701, and 0.203 for induced rules using Laplace evaluation.
- Successfully applied the algorithm to diverse datasets from multiple healthcare institutions.
Conclusions:
- The proposed Louvain Mani-Hierarchical Fold Learning algorithm shows significant potential for medical diagnostics in healthcare informatics.
- This hybrid deep learning approach can effectively analyze large-scale healthcare data for disease prediction.
- Further testing on extensive healthcare big data is recommended to explore its diagnostic capabilities.
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