Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework

Machine learning-based (ML) systems are becoming the primary means of achieving the highest levels of productivity and effectiveness. Incorporating other advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), or e-Health systems, has made ML the first choice to help automate systems and predic...

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Main Authors: Abdulatif Alabdulatif, Muneerah Al Asqah, Tarek Moulahi, Salah Zidi
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/2/1035
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author Abdulatif Alabdulatif
Muneerah Al Asqah
Tarek Moulahi
Salah Zidi
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Tarek Moulahi
Salah Zidi
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description Machine learning-based (ML) systems are becoming the primary means of achieving the highest levels of productivity and effectiveness. Incorporating other advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), or e-Health systems, has made ML the first choice to help automate systems and predict future events. The execution environment of ML is always presenting contrasting types of threats, such as adversarial poisoning of training datasets or model parameters manipulation. Blockchain technology is known as a decentralized network of blocks that symbolizes means of protecting block content integrity and ensuring secure execution of operations.Existing studies partially incorporated Blockchain into the learning process. This paper proposes a more extensive secure way to protect the decision process of the learning model. Using smart contracts, this study executed the model’s decision by the reversal engineering of the learning model’s decision function from the extracted learning parameters. We deploy Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) classifiers decision functions on-chain for more comprehensive integration of Blockchain. The effectiveness of this proposed approach is measured by applying a case study of medical records. In a safe environment, SVM prediction scores were found to be higher than MLP. However, MLP had higher time efficiency.
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spelling doaj.art-3a4d7e176ccb4319aabc8ef47dbec59f2023-11-30T21:05:15ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-01-01132103510.3390/app13021035Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making FrameworkAbdulatif Alabdulatif0Muneerah Al Asqah1Tarek Moulahi2Salah Zidi3Department of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraidah 52571, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraidah 52571, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraidah 52571, Saudi ArabiaISSIG, University of Gabes, Gabes 6072, TunisiaMachine learning-based (ML) systems are becoming the primary means of achieving the highest levels of productivity and effectiveness. Incorporating other advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), or e-Health systems, has made ML the first choice to help automate systems and predict future events. The execution environment of ML is always presenting contrasting types of threats, such as adversarial poisoning of training datasets or model parameters manipulation. Blockchain technology is known as a decentralized network of blocks that symbolizes means of protecting block content integrity and ensuring secure execution of operations.Existing studies partially incorporated Blockchain into the learning process. This paper proposes a more extensive secure way to protect the decision process of the learning model. Using smart contracts, this study executed the model’s decision by the reversal engineering of the learning model’s decision function from the extracted learning parameters. We deploy Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) classifiers decision functions on-chain for more comprehensive integration of Blockchain. The effectiveness of this proposed approach is measured by applying a case study of medical records. In a safe environment, SVM prediction scores were found to be higher than MLP. However, MLP had higher time efficiency.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/2/1035blockchaine-healthmachine learningdeep learningsmart contractdecision function
spellingShingle Abdulatif Alabdulatif
Muneerah Al Asqah
Tarek Moulahi
Salah Zidi
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework
Applied Sciences
blockchain
e-health
machine learning
deep learning
smart contract
decision function
title Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework
title_full Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework
title_fullStr Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework
title_full_unstemmed Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework
title_short Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Blockchain-Based E-Health for Safer Decision Making Framework
title_sort leveraging artificial intelligence in blockchain based e health for safer decision making framework
topic blockchain
e-health
machine learning
deep learning
smart contract
decision function
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/2/1035
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