Cotangent similarity measure of single-valued neutrosophic interval sets with confidence level for risk-grade evaluation of prostate cancer

A hybrid rough set shuffled frog leaping knowledge inference system for diagnosis of lung cancer disease

Abundant medical data are generated in the digital world every second. However, gathering helpful information from these data is difficult. Gathering useful information from the dataset is very advantageous and demanding. Besides, such data also contain many extraneous features that do not influence the foreboding accuracy while diagnosing a disease. The data must eliminate these extraneous features to get a better diagnosis. Ultimately, the minimized information system will lead to a better diagnosis. In this paper, we have introduced an incremental rough set shuffled frog leaping algorithm for knowledge inference. The proposed algorithm helps find minimum features from an information system while handling complex databases with uncertainty and incompleteness. The proposed rough set shuffled frog leaping knowledge inference model works in two phases. In the initial phase, the incremental rough set shuffled frog leaping algorithm is used to get the most relevant features. Identifying the relevant features is carried out using a fitness function, which uses the rough degree of dependency. The use of the fitness function identifies the much information with the minimum number of features. The purpose of feature selection is to identify a feature subset from an original set of features without reducing the predictive accuracy and to scale back the computation overhead in the data processing. In the second phase, a rough set is utilized for knowledge discovery in perception with rule generation. The selection of decision rules is carried out based on the accuracy of the decision rule and a predefined threshold value. An empirical analysis of the lung disease information system and a comparative study is conducted. Experimental outcomes exhibit that hybrid techniques express the feasibility of the proposed model while achieving better classification accuracy.

A modified weighted mean of vectors optimizer for Chronic Kidney disease classification

Chronic kidney Disease (CKD), also known as chronic renal disease, is an illness that affects the majority of adults and is defined by a progressive decrease in kidney function over time, particularly in those with diabetes and high blood pressure. Metaheuristic (MH) algorithms based machine learning classifiers have become reliable for medical treatment. The weIghted meaN oF vectOrs (INFO) is a recently developed MH but suffers from a fall into local optimal and slow convergence speed. Therefore, to improve INFO, a modified INFO (mINFO) with two enhancement strategies has been developed. The developed variant utilizes the Opposition-Based Learning (OBL) to improve the local search ability to avoid trapping into the local optimum, and the Dynamic Candidate Solution (DCS) is used to overcome the premature convergence problem in INFO and achieve the appropriate balance between exploration and exploitation ability. The performance of the proposed mINFO based on the k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classifier is evaluated on the complex CEC'22 test suite and applied to predict Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) on datasets extracted from UCI. The statistical results revealed the superiority of mINFO compared with several well-known MH algorithms, including the Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO), the Hunger Games Search (HGS) algorithm, the Moth-Flame Optimization (MFO) algorithm, the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), the Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA), the Gradient-Based Optimizer (GBO), and the original INFO algorithm. According to our knowledge, this paper is the first of its sort to try employing the proposed mINFO for solving the CEC'22 test suite. Furthermore, the experimental results of mINFO-kNN for classifying two CKD datasets demonstrated its superiority with an overall classification accuracy of 93.17% on two CKD datasets over other competitors.

How to ensure the confidentiality of electronic medical records on the cloud: A technical perspective

From a technical perspective, for electronic medical records (EMR), this paper proposes an effective confidential management solution on the cloud, whose basic idea is to deploy a trusted local server between the untrusted cloud and each trusted client of a medical information management system, responsible for running an EMR cloud hierarchical storage model and an EMR cloud segmentation query model. (1) The EMR cloud hierarchical storage model is responsible for storing light EMR data items (such as patient basic information) on the local server, while encrypting heavy EMR data items (such as patient medical images) and storing them on the cloud, to ensure the confidentiality of electronic medical records on the cloud. (2) The EMR cloud segmentation query model performs EMR related query operations through the collaborative interaction between the local server and the cloud server, to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of each EMR query statement. Finally, both theoretical analysis and experimental evaluation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution for confidentiality management of electronic medical records on the cloud, i.e., which can ensure the confidentiality of electronic medical records on the untrusted cloud, without compromising the availability of an existing medical information management system.

Human Centered Decision-Making for COVID-19 Testing Center Location Selection: Tamil Nadu—A Case Study

This paper proposes a blend of three techniques to select COVID-19 testing centers. The objective of the paper is to identify a suitable location to establish new COVID-19 testing centers. Establishment of the testing center in the needy locations will be beneficial to both public and government officials. Selection of the wrong location may lead to lose both health and wealth. In this paper, location selection is modelled as a decision-making problem. The paper uses fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique to generate the criteria weights, monkey search algorithm to optimize the weights, and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to rank the different locations. To illustrate the applicability of the proposed technique, a state named Tamil Nadu, located in India, is taken for a case study. The proposed structured algorithmic steps were applied for the input data obtained from the government of India website, and the results were analyzed and validated using the government of India website. The ranks assigned by the proposed technique to different locations are in aligning with the number of patients and death rate.