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

A Novel Framework for Data Assessment That Uses Edge Technology to Improve the Detection of Communicable Diseases

Spreading quickly throughout populations, whether animal or human-borne, infectious illnesses provide serious risks and difficulties. Controlling their spread and averting disinformation requires effective risk assessment and epidemic identification. Technology-enabled data analysis on diseases allows for quick solutions to these problems. A Combinational Data Assessment Scheme intended to accelerate disease detection is presented in this paper. The suggested strategy avoids duplicate data replication by sharing data among edge devices. It uses indexed data gathering to improve early detection by using tree classifiers to discern between various kinds of information. Both data similarity and index measurements are considered throughout the data analysis stage to minimize assessment errors. Accurate risk detection and assessment based on information kind and sharing frequency are ensured by comparing non-linear accumulations with accurate shared edge data. The suggested system exhibits high accuracy, low mistakes, and decreased data repetition to improve overall effectiveness in illness detection and risk reduction.

Deep Transfer Learning for Communicable Disease Detection and Recommendation in Edge Networks

Considering the increasing number of communicable disease cases such as COVID-19 worldwide, the early detection of the disease can prevent and limit the outbreak. Besides that, the PCR test kits are not available in most parts of the world, and there is genuine concern about their performance and reliability. To overcome this, in this paper, we develop a novel edge-centric healthcare framework integrating with wearable sensors and advanced machine learning (ML) model for timely decisions with minimum delay. Through wearable sensors, a set of features have been collected that are further preprocessed for preparing a useful dataset. However, due to limited resource capacity, analyzing the features in resource-constrained edge devices is challenging. Motivated by this, we introduce an advanced ML technique for data analysis at edge networks, namely Deep Transfer Learning (DTL). DTL transfers the knowledge from the well-trained model to a new lightweight ML model that can support the resource-constraint nature of distributed edge devices. We consider a benchmark COVID-19 dataset for validation purposes, consisting of 11 features and 2 Million sensor data. The extensive simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed DTL technique over the existing ones and achieve 99.8% accuracy while diseases prediction.

A Comprehensive Survey on Pandemic Patient Monitoring System: Enabling Technologies, Opportunities, and Research Challenges

Sporadic occurrences of transmissible diseases have severe and long-lasting effects on humankind throughout history. These outbreaks have molded the political, economic, and social aspects of human life. Pandemics have redefined some of the basic beliefs of modern healthcare, pushing researchers and scientists to develop innovative solutions to be better equipped for future emergencies. Numerous attempts have been made to fight Covid-19-like pandemics using technologies such as the Internet of Things, wireless body area network, blockchain, and machine learning. Since the disease is highly contagious, novel research in patients' health monitoring system is essential for the constant monitoring of pandemic patients with minimal or no human intervention. With the ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, popularly known as Covid-19, innovations for monitoring of patients' vitals and storing them securely have risen more than ever. Analyzing the stored patients' data can further assist healthcare workers in their decision-making process. In this paper, we surveyed the research works on remote monitoring of pandemic patients admitted in hospitals or quarantined at home. First, an overview of pandemic patient monitoring is given followed by a brief introduction of enabling technologies i.e. Internet of Things, blockchain, and machine learning to implement the system. The reviewed works have been classified into three categories; remote monitoring of pandemic patients using IoT, blockchain-based storage or sharing platforms for patients' data, and processing/analyzing the stored patients' data using machine learning for prognosis and diagnosis. We also identified several open research issues to set directions for future research.

At the Confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing in IoT-Based Applications: A Review and New Perspectives

Given its advantages in low latency, fast response, context-aware services, mobility, and privacy preservation, edge computing has emerged as the key support for intelligent applications and 5G/6G Internet of things (IoT) networks. This technology extends the cloud by providing intermediate services at the edge of the network and improving the quality of service for latency-sensitive applications. Many AI-based solutions with machine learning, deep learning, and swarm intelligence have exhibited the high potential to perform intelligent cognitive sensing, intelligent network management, big data analytics, and security enhancement for edge-based smart applications. Despite its many benefits, there are still concerns about the required capabilities of intelligent edge computing to deal with the computational complexity of machine learning techniques for big IoT data analytics. Resource constraints of edge computing, distributed computing, efficient orchestration, and synchronization of resources are all factors that require attention for quality of service improvement and cost-effective development of edge-based smart applications. In this context, this paper aims to explore the confluence of AI and edge in many application domains in order to leverage the potential of the existing research around these factors and identify new perspectives. The confluence of edge computing and AI improves the quality of user experience in emergency situations, such as in the Internet of vehicles, where critical inaccuracies or delays can lead to damage and accidents. These are the same factors that most studies have used to evaluate the success of an edge-based application. In this review, we first provide an in-depth analysis of the state of the art of AI in edge-based applications with a focus on eight application areas: smart agriculture, smart environment, smart grid, smart healthcare, smart industry, smart education, smart transportation, and security and privacy. Then, we present a qualitative comparison that emphasizes the main objective of the confluence, the roles and the use of artificial intelligence at the network edge, and the key enabling technologies for edge analytics. Then, open challenges, future research directions, and perspectives are identified and discussed. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.

Disease categorization with clinical data using optimized bat algorithm and fuzzy value

Diagnosis of human disease is a more difficult and complex process since it requires the consideration of various factors and symptoms to make a decision. Generally, the classification of diseases with fuzzy values is the most interesting topic because of accurate results. In this paper, we design a Bat-based Random Forest (BbRF) framework to enhance the performance of categorizing diseases with fuzzy values which also protect the privacy of the developed scheme. It involves pre-processing, attributes selection, fuzzy value generation, and classification. Additionally, the developed framework is implemented in Python tool and patient disease datasets are used for implementation. Moreover, pre-processing remove the error and noise, attributes are selected based on the duration of diseases. Finally, classify the patient disease based on the generated fuzzy value. To prove the efficiency of the developed framework, attained results are compared with other existing techniques in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-measure, and precision.