Mengwei Hou1, Rong Wei1,*, Tiangang Wang1, Yu Cheng2, Buyue Qian3
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.1, pp. 137-149, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.02438
Abstract Collaborative filtering (CF) methods are widely adopted by existing medical recommendation systems, which can help clinicians perform their work by seeking and recommending appropriate medical advice. However, privacy issue arises in this process as sensitive patient private data are collected by the recommendation server. Recently proposed privacy-preserving collaborative filtering methods, using computation-intensive cryptography techniques or data perturbation techniques are not appropriate in medical online service. The aim of this study is to address the privacy issues in the context of neighborhood-based CF methods by proposing a Privacy Preserving Medical Recommendation (PPMR) algorithm, which can protect… More >