iCovidCare: Intelligent health monitoring framework for COVID-19 using ensemble random forest in edge networks

The COVID-19 outbreak is in its growing stage due to the lack of standard diagnosis for the patients. In recent times, various models with machine learning have been developed to predict and diagnose novel coronavirus. However, the existing models fail to take an instant decision for detecting the COVID-19 patient immediately and cannot handle multiple medical sensor data for disease prediction. To handle such challenges, we propose an intelligent health monitoring and prediction framework, namely the iCovidCare model for predicting the health status of COVID-19 patients using the ensemble Random Forest (eRF) technique in edge networks. In the proposed framework, a rule-based policy is designed on the local edge devices to detect the risk factor of a patient immediately using monitoring Temperature sensor values. The real-time health monitoring parameters of different medical sensors are transmitted to the centralized cloud servers for future health prediction of the patients. The standard eRF technique is used to predict the health status of the patients using the proposed data fusion and feature selection strategy by selecting the most significant features for disease prediction. The proposed iCovidCare model is evaluated with a synthetic COVID-19 dataset and compared with the standard classification models based on various performance matrices to show its effectiveness. The proposed model has achieved 95.13% accuracy, which is higher than the standard classification models.