Assessing Health Symptoms on Intelligent
IoT-based Healthcare System
Yo-Ping Huang
1,2
, Haobijam Basanta
1
and Avichandra Singh
1
1
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Taipei University of Technology
Taipei, Taiwan 10608
yphuang@ntut.edu.tw; basantameitei@gmail.com; avichandra0420@gmail.com
2
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taipei University
New Taipei City, Taiwan 23741
Corresponding Author: yphuang@ntut.edu.tw
Abstract. The increased proportion of aging population will demand changes to
healthcare systems in developing countries. The increasing demand on the health
sector is an inevitable and complicated process. Providing suitable healthcare
services is essential for those elderly people who may encounter various medical
problems and conditions. Early detection and identification of diseases for treat-
ment, and evaluation of the best alternatives can minimize the involved compli-
cations of daily activities for the aged people. To lower the risk for complications
we develop an intuitive way of finding the uncertainty of health symptoms by
symptom checker. The goal of this empirical study is to further examine and pre-
dict certain variations of diseases based on the symptoms that a patient reported.
This recommended solution combines conceptual design and technique of multi
criteria decision making (MCDM) analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with fuzzy
triangular priority weights to deal with the uncertainty of imprecision and ambi-
guity that resulted from the relative priority scales of various factors of diseases.
The method can help users to understand the uncertainty degree of a problem
before making the final decision. This paper also validates the efficiency and
feasibility of the proposed model to determine the weights of various diseases
based on the symptoms and scores chosen by the users thereby providing quality
of life assistance services.
Keywords: Symptom checker, healthcare service, interface design, fuzzy AHP,
Internet of Things.
1 Introduction
Most parents expect their children to be around when they are aged. But due to changes
in family values, many seniors end up in nursing homes or independent-living housing.
A large percentage of old people face distinctive challenges such as chronic diseases
including heart disease, physical disabilities, diabetes, and depression [1]. Prevention
and control of health problems of elderly necessitate a multidimensional approach to
Advanced Science and Technology Letters
Vol.144 (MTHCI 2017), pp.21-30
http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2017.144.03
ISSN: 2287-1233 ASTL
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