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Abdullah Lakhan1, Hassen Hamouda2, Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem3
1Department of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi City 74800, Sindh, Pakistan.
Abstract:
Utilizing digital healthcare services for patients who use wheelchairs is a vital and effective means to enhance their healthcare. Digital healthcare integrates various healthcare facilities, including local laboratories and centralized hospitals, to provide healthcare services for individuals in wheelchairs. In digital healthcare, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) allows local wheelchairs to connect with remote digital healthcare services and generate sensors from wheelchairs to monitor and process healthcare. Recently, it has been observed that wheelchair patients, when older than thirty, suffer from high blood pressure, heart disease, body glucose, and others due to less activity because of their disabilities. However, existing wheelchair IoMT applications are straightforward and do not consider the healthcare of wheelchair patients with their diseases during their disabilities. This paper presents a novel digital healthcare framework for patients with disabilities based on deep-federated learning schemes. In the proposed framework, we offer the federated learning deep convolutional neural network schemes (FL-DCNNS) that consist of different sub-schemes. The offloading scheme collects the sensors from integrated wheelchair bio-sensors as smartwatches such as blood pressure, heartbeat, body glucose, and oxygen. The smartwatches worked with wearable devices for disabled patients in our framework. We present the federated learning-enabled laboratories for data training and share the updated weights with the data security to the centralized node for decision and prediction. We present the decision forest for centralized healthcare nodes to decide on aggregation with the different constraints: cost, energy, time, and accuracy. We implemented a deep CNN scheme in each laboratory to train and validate the model locally on the node with the consideration of resources. Simulation results show that FL-DCNNS obtained the optimal results on the sensor data and minimized the energy by 25%, time 19%, cost 28%, and improved the accuracy of disease prediction by 99% as compared to existing digital healthcare schemes for wheelchair patients.
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