Diagnostics (Jul 2023)

Asynchronous Federated Learning for Improved Cardiovascular Disease Prediction Using Artificial Intelligence

  • Muhammad Amir Khan,
  • Musleh Alsulami,
  • Muhammad Mateen Yaqoob,
  • Deafallah Alsadie,
  • Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar,
  • Mohammed AlKhathami,
  • Umar Farooq Khattak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142340
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 14
p. 2340

Abstract

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Healthcare professionals consider predicting heart disease an essential task and deep learning has proven to be a promising approach for achieving this goal. This research paper introduces a novel method called the asynchronous federated deep learning approach for cardiac prediction (AFLCP), which combines a heart disease dataset and deep neural networks (DNNs) with an asynchronous learning technique. The proposed approach employs a method for asynchronously updating the parameters of DNNs and incorporates a temporally weighted aggregation technique to enhance the accuracy and convergence of the central model. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed AFLCP method, two datasets with various DNN architectures are tested, and the results demonstrate that the AFLCP approach outperforms the baseline method in terms of both communication cost and model accuracy.

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