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AI-optimized GRU-based self-attention model for predictive diabetes staging in IoT healthcare 5.0
Liang Zhou1, Brij B Gupta2,3,4,5,6, Akshat Gaurav7,8
1Jiading District Central Hospital, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, 201318, China.
This study introduces a novel self-attention GRU model for early diabetes detection using IoT data. The model achieves high accuracy, outperforming existing methods for predictive health analytics.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Biomedical Engineering
Background:
- Healthcare 5.0 environments leverage Internet of Things (IoT) devices for user data collection.
- Early detection and staging of diabetes are crucial but challenging due to complex healthcare feature interrelationships.
- Accurate prediction of diabetes requires advanced analytical models.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate a novel self-attention Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) model for predictive diabetes detection.
- To improve the accuracy of diabetes prediction by capturing temporal and spatial features in healthcare data.
- To compare the proposed model's performance against established deep learning baselines.
Main Methods:
- A GRU-based self-attention mechanism was employed to capture temporal dependencies and spatial features.
- Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Batch Normalization and ReLU was utilized for final classification.
- The model was trained and evaluated on healthcare datasets for diabetes prediction.
Main Results:
- The proposed self-attention GRU model achieved 93.94% accuracy, 95.28% precision, and 93.94% recall.
- The model demonstrated a high Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.9697.
- Performance significantly surpassed GRU, LSTM, RNN, and transformer-based baseline models.
Conclusions:
- The self-attention GRU model is effective for early and accurate diabetes detection in Healthcare 5.0.
- The model's ability to capture complex dependencies enhances predictive capabilities for chronic diseases.
- This approach offers a promising advancement in AI-driven diabetes management and prediction.
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