scholarly journals An Intelligent Literature Review: an Inductive Approach to define Machine Learning Applications in the clinical domain

Author(s):  
Renu Sabharwal ◽  
Shah Jahan Miah

Abstract Big data analytics utilizes different analytics techniques to transform large volume and diversified big dataset. The analytics uses various computational methods such as different Machine Learning (ML) in convert raw data to valuable insights. The ML assist individuals to perform work activities quicker and better, and empower decision-makers in system use. Since academics and industry practitioners have growing interests on ML, how different applications of ML in specific problem domains have been explored, but not in a holistic manner from the past literature. This paper aims to promote the utilization of intelligent literature review for researchers by introducing a step-by-step framework on a case providing the code template. We offer an intelligent literature review to obtain in-depth analytical insight of ML applications in the clinical domain to: a) develop the intelligent literature framework using traditional literature and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling, b) analyze research documents using traditional systematic literature review revealing ML applications, and c) identify topics from documents using LDA topic modeling. We used a PRISMA framework for the traditional literature review, reviewed four databases (e.g. IEEE, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar), which are published between 2016 and 2021 (September). The framework comprises two stages – Traditional systematic literature review and LDA topic modeling. The intelligent literature review framework reviewed 305 research documents in a transparent, reliable, and faster way.

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 2997
Author(s):  
Luminita Hurbean ◽  
Doina Danaiata ◽  
Florin Militaru ◽  
Andrei-Mihail Dodea ◽  
Ana-Maria Negovan

Machine learning (ML) has already gained the attention of the researchers involved in smart city (SC) initiatives, along with other advanced technologies such as IoT, big data, cloud computing, or analytics. In this context, researchers also realized that data can help in making the SC happen but also, the open data movement has encouraged more research works using machine learning. Based on this line of reasoning, the aim of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review to investigate open data-based machine learning applications in the six different areas of smart cities. The results of this research reveal that: (a) machine learning applications using open data came out in all the SC areas and specific ML techniques are discovered for each area, with deep learning and supervised learning being the first choices. (b) Open data platforms represent the most frequently used source of data. (c) The challenges associated with open data utilization vary from quality of data, to frequency of data collection, to consistency of data, and data format. Overall, the data synopsis as well as the in-depth analysis may be a valuable support and inspiration for the future smart city projects.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Arshad Ahmad ◽  
Chong Feng ◽  
Muzammil Khan ◽  
Asif Khan ◽  
Ayaz Ullah ◽  
...  

Context. The improvements made in the last couple of decades in the requirements engineering (RE) processes and methods have witnessed a rapid rise in effectively using diverse machine learning (ML) techniques to resolve several multifaceted RE issues. One such challenging issue is the effective identification and classification of the software requirements on Stack Overflow (SO) for building quality systems. The appropriateness of ML-based techniques to tackle this issue has revealed quite substantial results, much effective than those produced by the usual available natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Nonetheless, a complete, systematic, and detailed comprehension of these ML based techniques is considerably scarce. Objective. To identify or recognize and classify the kinds of ML algorithms used for software requirements identification primarily on SO. Method. This paper reports a systematic literature review (SLR) collecting empirical evidence published up to May 2020. Results. This SLR study found 2,484 published papers related to RE and SO. The data extraction process of the SLR showed that (1) Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling is among the widely used ML algorithm in the selected studies and (2) precision and recall are amongst the most commonly utilized evaluation methods for measuring the performance of these ML algorithms. Conclusion. Our SLR study revealed that while ML algorithms have phenomenal capabilities of identifying the software requirements on SO, they still are confronted with various open problems/issues that will eventually limit their practical applications and performances. Our SLR study calls for the need of close collaboration venture between the RE and ML communities/researchers to handle the open issues confronted in the development of some real world machine learning-based quality systems.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Bjarne Pfitzner ◽  
Nico Steckhan ◽  
Bert Arnrich

Data privacy is a very important issue. Especially in fields like medicine, it is paramount to abide by the existing privacy regulations to preserve patients’ anonymity. However, data is required for research and training machine learning models that could help gain insight into complex correlations or personalised treatments that may otherwise stay undiscovered. Those models generally scale with the amount of data available, but the current situation often prohibits building large databases across sites. So it would be beneficial to be able to combine similar or related data from different sites all over the world while still preserving data privacy. Federated learning has been proposed as a solution for this, because it relies on the sharing of machine learning models, instead of the raw data itself. That means private data never leaves the site or device it was collected on. Federated learning is an emerging research area, and many domains have been identified for the application of those methods. This systematic literature review provides an extensive look at the concept of and research into federated learning and its applicability for confidential healthcare datasets.


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