Individual Doctor Recommendation in Large Networks by Constrained Optimization

Jibing Gong, Hong Cheng and Lili Wang
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Jibing Gong: School of Information Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory for Computer Virtual Technology and System Integration of Hebei Province, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China
Hong Cheng: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Lili Wang: School of Information Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory for Computer Virtual Technology and System Integration of Hebei Province, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China

International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), 2015, vol. 12, issue 4, 16-28

Abstract: In this paper, the authors try to systematically investigate the problem of individual doctor recommendation and propose a novel method to enable patients to access such intelligent medical service. In their method, the authors first mine doctor-patient ties/relationships via Time-constraint Probability Factor Graph model (TPFG) from a medical social network. Next, they design a constraint-based optimization framework to efficiently improve the accuracy for doctor-patient relationship mining. Last, they propose a novel Individual Doctor Recommendation Model, namely IDR-Model, to compute doctor recommendation success rate based on weighted average method. The authors conduct experiments to verify the method on a real medical data set. Experimental results show that they obtain better accuracy of mining doctor-patient relationship from the network, and doctor recommendation results of IDR-Model are reasonable and satisfactory.

Date: 2015
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