Intelligent and Interactive Healthcare System (I²HS) Using Machine Learning

Abstract

There has been a gigantic stir in the world’s healthcare sector for the past couple of years with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. The healthcare system has suffered a major setback and, with the lack of doctors, nurses, and healthcare facilities the need for an intelligent healthcare system has come to the fore more than ever before. Smart healthcare technologies and AI/ML algorithms provide encouraging and favorable solutions to the healthcare sector’s challenges. An Intelligent Human-Machine Interactive system is the need of the hour. This paper proposes a novel architecture for an Intelligent and Interactive Healthcare System that incorporates edge/fog/cloud computing techniques and focuses on Speech Recognition and its extensive application in an interactive system. The focal reason for using speech in the healthcare sector is that it is easily available and can easily predict any physical or psychological discomfort. Simply put, human speech is the most natural form of communication. The Hidden Markov Model is applied to process the proposed approach as using the probabilistic approach is more realistic for prediction purposes. Ongoing projects and directions for future work along with challenges/issues are also addressed.

Keywords

• Interactive system
• human-machine interaction
• smart healthcare
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• hidden Markov model