Cognitive computing technological trends and future research directions in healthcare - A systematic literature...

Cognitive Computing systems are the intelligent systems that thinks, understands and augments the capabilities of human brain by blending the technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. In recent days, maintenance or enhancement of health by preclusion, prognosis, and analysis of diseases has become a challenging task. The increasing diseases and its causes becomes a big question before humanity. Limited risk analysis, meticulous training process, and automated critical decision-making are some of the issues of cognitive computing. To overcome this issue, cognitive computing in healthcare works like a medical prodigy which anticipates the disease or illness of the human being and helps the doctors with technological facts to take the timely action. The main aim of this survey article is to explore the present and futuristic technological trends of cognitive computing in healthcare. In this work, different cognitive computing applications are reviewed, and the best application is recommended to the clinicians. Based on this recommendation, the clinicians are able to monitor and analyze the physical health of patients.

This article presents the systematic literature on the different aspects of cognitive computing in healthcare. Nearly seven online databases such as SCOPUS, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, DBLP, Web of Science, Springer and PubMed were screened and the published articles related to cognitive computing in healthcare is collected from 2014 to 2021. In total, 75 articles were selected, examined and their pros and cons are analyzed. The analysis is done with respect to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.

The basic findings of this review article and their significance for theory and practice are mindmaps portraying the cognitive computing platforms, cognitive applications in healthcare, and use cases of cognitive computing in healthcare. A detailed discussion section highlighting the present issues, future research directions and recent applications of cognitive computing in healthcare. Accuracy analysis of different cognitive systems conclude that the Medical Sieve achieves 0.95 and Watson For Oncology (WFO) achieves 0.93 and hence proves to be the prominent computing systems for healthcare.

Cognitive computing, an evolving technology in healthcare augments the clinical thought process and enable the doctors to make the right diagnosis and preserve the patient's health in good condition. These systems provides timely care, optimal and cost-effective treatment. This article provides an extensive survey of the importance of cognitive computing in the health sector by highlighting the platforms, techniques, tools, algorithms, applications, and use cases. This survey also explores about the works in the literature on present issues and proposes the future research directions of applying cognitive systems in healthcare.