Review of Deep Learning Applications in Healthcare

Abstract

With the rapid development and integration of biomedicine and information technology,massive amounts of imaging data,patient report data,electronic health records,and omics data have been accumulated rapidly in healthcare.These data are cha-racterized by complexity,heterogeneity and high dimensionality.Deep learning has the ability of complex function simulation and automatic feature learning,which can provide efficient technical support for research in medical diagnosis and drug development.Currently,deep learning has been extremely successful in medical imaging and further more,some medical imaging diagnostic systems based on deep learning have achieved performance that is even comparable to that of relevant experts.Due to the progress of natural language processing technology,deep learning has also made remarkable progress in the use of non-image data tasks.This paper first briefly describes the development of deep learning in healthcare.Subsequently,the application of deep learning model in healthcare is statistically analyzed,and some available datasets are sorted out.In addition,this paper also introduces the research progress of deep learning in medical diagnosis and treatment processes such as disease diagnosis and health monitoring,and its research progress in protein structure prediction and drug discovery.Finally,key challenges of deep learning in healthcare applications such as data quality,interpretability,privacy security and practical application limitations are discussed.It also discusses feasible solutions or approaches to these challenges.

Keywords

• deep learning|disease diagnosis|health monitoring|protein structure prediction|drug discovery