A Deep Learning Approach for Classification of Medicare Beneficiaries Based on Gender and being Affected with Cancer

Abstract

With the advent of the Third computing platform of Social Mobility Analytics and Cloud (SMAC), data is getting generated in huge amounts. This huge amount of data is collected for domain-specific information to process them to get required domain-specific information as in real-time health analytics, financial frauds, real-time automated car driving, vital information of patients undergoing robotic surgery, handling cyber threats etc. This huge data, also known as Big Data, is highly unstructured and imbalanced that is not possible for traditional techniques to handle and process. Advancements in computing power, speedy data storage and convergence of SMAC technologies have also contributed to the swift acceptance of the technology. This led to innovative analytical techniques that are data as well as computation intensive. One such technique is Deep Learning which originated from the artificial neural network and found its use in handling many real-life problems involving multidimensional features. The advantage of Feature Learning or Representational Learning makes Deep Learning a wonderful tool for big data analytics. The previous level of hierarchy transfers the feature learning to the next levels and thus complex features are learned through the learning of simpler features at different levels of abstraction. For efficient learning of these features, tuning of hyper-parameters is a mandatory step. The current work incorporates Grid Search for classification to find the best classifier for the classification of Medicare beneficiaries based on two scenarios. The first Scenario is beneficiaries who are affected by cancer and the Second Scenario is where Medicare beneficiaries are provided Gender wise (being a Female beneficiary). By experimenting using these algorithms at 10-fold cross-validation, the best results were achieved in the sensitivity of 99.17 %, Specificity of 97.68 % and accuracy of 98.8 % with Deep Learning Neural Network with Dropout for First Scenario and achieved the best results in the sensitivity of 82.97 %, Specificity of 68.71 % and accuracy of 75.05 % with Random Forest for Second Scenario. © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.