An incremental learning classification algorithm based on forgetting factor for eHealth networks
Yang Li, Kun Wang, Chenhan Xu, Chunsheng Zhu, Yanfei Sun · 2016
The advances of network technology and mobile communication technology are making eHealth possible. In eHealth systems, physiological data and relevant context-aware data are acquired continuously and in real time. At the same time, such large-scale data results in huge challenges in the aspect of real-time big data processing since eHealth data appears in the form of data stream. Therefore, we propose a novel incremental learning algorithm, namely α-SVMSGD, which improves the SVMSGD (Support Vector Machine-Stochastic Gradient Descent) algorithm by updating the training data with the continuous data stream. Besides, this α-SVMSGD may handle the problem that original SVMSGD cannot further mine the useful information in unclassified data. In α-SVMSGD, the process of training data updating is completed by introducing the concept of forgetting mechanism, in which the forgetting factor α is introduced to weed out useless training data. α-SVMSGD is applied into ambient assisted living communications, and further incorporated into the data filtering layer of a local data processing architecture (LDPA) to reduce data redundancy. Simulation results confirm that the proposed algorithm is a promising data redundancy solution for classification without loss of accuracy in the case of real-time data stream.