Deep learning applications for IoT in health care: A systematic review

Abstract

In machine learning, deep learning is the most popular topic having a wide range of applications such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, visual object detection, disease prediction, drug discovery, bioinformatics, biomedicine, etc. Of these applications, health care and medical science-related applications are dramatically on the rise. The tremendous big data growth, the Internet of Things (IoT), connected devices, and high-performance computers utilizing GPUs and TPUs are the main reasons why deep learning is so popular. Based on their specific tasks, medical IoT, digital images, electronic health record (EHR) data, genomic data, and central medical databases are the primary data sources for deep learning systems. Several potential issues such as privacy, QoS optimization, and deployment indicate the pivotal part of deep learning. In this paper, deep learning for IoT applications in health care systems is reviewed based on the Systematic Literature Review (SLR). This paper investigates the related researches, selected from among 44 published research papers, conducted within a period of ten years – 2010 to 2020. Firstly, theoretical concepts and ideas of deep learning and technical taxonomy are proposed. Afterwards, major deep learning applications for IoT in health care and medical sciences are presented through analyzing the related works. Later, the main idea, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of each study are discussed, preceding suggestions for further research.