Mobile u-health service system for personalized diagnosis based on ontology

Abstract

There are many problems with applying the machine learning technique, which is widely used in the conventional healthcare field, during the mobile u-health service analysis step. First, research on the mobile u-health service is just beginning, and there are very few cases where the existing techniques have been applied in the mobile u-health service environment. Second, since the machine learning technique requires a long learning period, it is not suitable for application in the mobile u-health service environment, which requires real-time disease management. Third, the various machine learning techniques that have been proposed until now do not include a way to assign the weight factors to the disease-related variables, and thus its use as a personalized disease prediction system is somewhat limited. This paper proposes PCADP, which is an ontology-based personalized disease prediction method, to solve such problems and to interpret the bio data analysis of the mobile u-health service system as a process. Moreover, the mobile u-health service ontology framework was modeled as a semantics type in order to meaningfully express the mobile u-health data and service statement based on PCADP. To validate the performance and efficiency of the PCADP technique proposed in this paper, the 5-cross validation method was used to measure the accuracy of the prediction. The validation of PCADP using a virtual disease group verified that the technique proposed in this paper shows much greater accuracy compared to existing methods. Moreover, the PCADP prediction method improved the flexibility and real-time attributes, which are the essential elements of any diagnosis technique in the mobile u-health environment, and showed efficiency in the continuous improvement of the monitoring and system of the diagnosis process. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.