Wearable Technology to Assist the Patients Infected with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10705/11462-thumbnail.jpgWearable technology plays a significant role in our daily life as well as in the healthcare industry. The recent coronavirus pandemic has taken the world\u27s healthcare systems by surprise. Although trials of possible vaccines are underway, it would take a long time before the vaccines are permitted for public use. Most of the government efforts are currently geared towards preventing the spread of the coronavirus and predicting probable hot zones. The essential and healthcare workers are the most vulnerable towards coronavirus infections due to their required proximity to potential coronavirus patients. Wearable technology can potentially assist in these regards by providing real-time remote monitoring, symptoms prediction, contact tracing, etc. The goal of this paper is to discuss the different existing wearable monitoring devices (respiration rate, heart rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation) and respiratory support systems (ventilators, CPAP devices, and oxygen therapy) which are frequently used to assist the coronavirus affected people. The devices are described based on the services they provide, their working procedures as well as comparative analysis of their merits and demerits with cost. A comparative discussion with probable future trends is also drawn to select the best technology for COVID-19 infected patients. It is envisaged that wearable technology is only capable of providing initial treatment that can reduce the spread of this pandemic.</p

Coronary artery heart disease prediction: A comparative study of computational intelligence techniques

Diseases is an unusual circumstance that affects single or more parts of a human’s body. Because of lifestyle and patrimonial, different kinds of disease are increasing day by day. Among all those diseases, heart disease turns out to be the most common disease and the impact of this ailment is dangerous than all other diseases. In this paper, we compared a number of computational intelligence techniques for the prediction of coronary artery heart disease. Seven computational intelligence techniques named as Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Deep Neural Network (DNN), Decision Tree (DT), Naïve Bayes (NB), Random Forest (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) were applied and a comparative study was drawn. The performance of each technique was evaluated using Statlog and Cleveland heart disease dataset which are retrieved from the UCI machine learning repository database with several evaluation techniques. From the study, it can be carried out that the highest accuracy of 98.15% obtained by deep neural network with sensitivity and precision 98.67% and 98.01% respectively. The outcomes of the study were compared with the outcomes of the state of the art focusing on heart disease prediction that outperforms the previous study

Data mining technique to analyse and predict crime using crime categories and arrest records

Generally, crimes influence organisations as it starts occurring frequently in society. Because of having many dimensions of crime data, it is difficult to mine the available information using off the shelf or statistical data analysis tools. Improving this process will aid the police as well as crime protection agencies to solve the crime rate in a faster period. Also, criminals can often be identified based on crime data. Data mining includes strategies at the convergence of machine learning and database frameworks. Using this concept, we can extract previously unknown useful information and their patterns of occurrence from unstructured data. The sole purpose of this paper is to give an idea of how data mining can be utilised by crime investigation agencies to discover relevant precautionary measures from prediction rates. Data sets are analysed by some supervised classification algorithms, namely decision tree, K-nearest neighbours (KNN) and random forest algorithms. Crime forecasting is done for frequently occurring crimes like robbery, assault, theft, etc. Specifically, the results indicate the superiority of the random forest algorithm in test accuracy