THESIS PURPOSAL (1ST DRAFT)

Anushey khan
[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
Contents
Topic: ......................................................................................................................................................... 1
PURPOSE/IMPORTANCE: ...........................................................................................................................1
FIELD, RESOURCES, PLACE DURATION AND SUPPORT ..................................................................................2
Related work: ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Bibliography ...................................................................................................................................................4

Topic:
All over the world medication, and diagnostic errors are caused by doctors due to a lack of
knowledge and experience in most cases. The journey leading to disease detection and medicine
suggestions by the healthcare professional is undeniably exhausting on the mental as well as the
financial situation of the patient. Universal testing is inefficient in terms of both time and money.
Hence the price of modern-day healthcare in the case of chronic diseases is quite worrisome for
the layman, not to mention by the time some of the results of the tests are acquired the situation
of the patient has worsened. After the initial stage, once the disease is identified, the next step is
equally crucial: advice for medication. It is not uncommon for doctors to not be able to suggest
the correct medication. This is because experts write the prescription in accordance with their
own experiences which are of course quite limited.

PURPOSE/IMPORTANCE:
The diagnosis is the fundamental stage of the treatment process. It needs to be accurate, timely
and the basic right of every sick individual, hence affordable. Time should not be wasted on
constant wrong judgments and repetitions of tests. A person’s health should not suffer due to the
efficiency lack of the healthcare system. The prescription recommended should be precisely
compatible with the patient’s internal system. It should not be the cause for further complications
for example allergic reactions, and just target the problem at hand. Hence a deep knowledge of
the patient’s history needs to be studied.
My aim is to research a system that could be of use to the healthcare department, primarily
doctors in terms of disease and required medication prediction. Data mining and recommender
technologies like Knowledge-based or Content-based filtering can be used to explore potential
data from patients’ histories. Widespread use of medical information and databases can be
combined with Machine Learning models for an overall more efficient healthcare system, which
is what I aim to build.
FIELD, RESOURCES, PLACE DURATION AND SUPPORT
My project will use machine learning techniques, and GUI. Hence will come under the umbrella
of Artificial Intelligence and User Interface.
I will be using two datasets for my project: one is for disease prediction, and the other is for
medical recommendation. The dataset for the disease has information about 40 diseases and the
dataset for medicine has 1000 drugs listed.

Related work:
(Jiang, 2016)In this paper, the authors have talked about a global medicine recommender system.
They in the end concluded that SVM is the best medicine recommendation model because of its
accuracy, and precision with the dataset they used. Which was an open dataset. Initially, there
were five modules introduced database system, data preparation, recommendation model, model
evaluation, and data visualization, which was implemented on an open dataset. Thorough
experimentation adjusted the parameters to consistently improve the algorithm before reaching a
conclusion.
This paper helped me identify the strategy and model I want to apply to my system when a
medicine recommendation is required, also the object of this paper appealed to me which was to
cater to the 42% medication error, which is quite a significant percentage especially when it is
something affecting people’s health.
(Department of Intelligent Systems, 1999) In this paper, computer-assisted data analysis methods
are used, with selected data mining techniques. Also, machine learning techniques are useful for
medical database analysis such as the derivation of symbolic rules, use of background knowledge,
and sensitivity and specificity of induced descriptions. The deriving of symbolic rules are
compulsory especially when the aim of data mining is to enable the interpretation of assumed
solutions. Sensitivity, specificity, information score, post-test probability and misclassification
price are talked about as alternative measures to classification accuracy for evaluating the quality
of a classifier.
(Ozcan, NEW RECOMMENDER SYSTEM USING NAIVE BAYES FOR ELEARNING,
2016) I chose this paper because I wanted to learn about Naïve Bayesian algorithm for
recommendation systems. Predictions for the vetted items, for E-Learning are produced through
the Naïve Bayesian Classifier algorithm. This is a probabilistic classification method. It involves
the evaluation of different data preprocessing operations applied in the continuous to binary
conversion step.
(Jhonny Pincay⇤, 2019) An excellent paper which discusses the need for recommender systems
in healthcare and provides an overview of prevalent research. The existing research it classifies
the Heath Recommender System according to four concepts: Method; Technique;
Recommendation Area and Knowledge Representation. The methods were further divided into
content-based filtering; collaborative filtering and hybrid-based. In the technique section,
machine learning algorithms best fit for the methods were discussed, to quote a few: clustering;
decision trees etc.
Furthermore, the recommendation area stated the things that were being outputted by the system
as suggestions to the users. So fundamentally recommendations for wellness, medical resources,
healthcare and diagnosis. Different forms of knowledge representations are argued for the
Health Recommender Systems, for example, NL, Feature Vectors.
This paper was very interesting to me as it helped me explore new concepts which I could use for
my recommender system. The diagnosis of medical conditions in the recommendation was
relevant to my study. Also, since this was a generic paper for a health recommender system it
helped me find other research papers which were highly applicable to my research.
(Recommender systems in the healthcare domain:) Recommender systems in the healthcare
domain: state-of-the-art and research issues is another well-written paper that argues techniques
of healthcare recommender systems, but also discusses aspects of them in detail, which are:
usage context, users and items. From this paper, I learned in depth about how usage context is
where all elements interact with each other. Users are end-users and items are the looked-for
elements by the user. It also listed ongoing dilemmas with recommender systems in healthcare,
which I am also currently looking into. The issues include early diagnosis; constructing user
profiles (required data collection) etc.
Bibliography
·, T. N. (2020). Recommender systems in the healthcare domain:.

(2016). In M. Ozcan.

Department of Intelligent Systems, J. S. (1999). Selected techniques for data mining in medicine.

Jhonny Pincay⇤, L. T. (2019). Health Recommender Systems: A State-of-the-art.

Jiang, Y. B. (2016). , "An intelligent medicine recommender system framework.

Ozcan, M. (2016). NEW RECOMMENDER SYSTEM USING NAIVE BAYES FOR ELEARNING. In NEW
RECOMMENDER SYSTEM USING NAIVE BAYES FOR ELEARNING.