An Effective Diagnostic Framework for COVID-19 Using an Integrated Approach

ABSTRACT

The coronavirus, one of the deadliest virus erupted in Wuhan, China in December and has claimed millions of lives worldwide and infected too. This virus has off-late demonstrated mutations thus making it difficult for the health professionals to adopt a uniform means of cure. Many people due to lack of support have confined themselves at home. The hospitals too are running short of equipment and support systems. Thus, computational connectivity between the patients at home and the hospitals needs to be established. The objective of this paper is to propose a framework/model that connects all the stakeholders so that either in regular monitoring or in emergency cases help can be provided to them. It has been well established through research and case studies that critical factors associated with this disease are oxygen level (SPO2), pulse rate, fever, chest infection, cough causing choking, and breathlessness. Data shall be collected, stored, and analyzed for the above symptoms and for this cloud storage and blockchain technology would be used. It has been established through various studies that non-clinical techniques like AI and machine learning prove to be effective for the prediction and diagnosis of COVID-19. Using this theory as the standard basis, machine learning models like SVM, Naive Bayes, and decision trees can be used for the analysis, diagnosis, and prediction. Using IoT and its variants, remote monitoring of patient, and consultation can be provided to the patient. Appropriate action would be taken. In addition, a mobile application would enable the patients to gather or read about experiences of other patients. Thus, it would be established through the proposed framework, that an integrated approach of technologies has a great potential in such applications and offers several advantages.