Privacy-Enhanced Heart Disease Prediction in Cloud-Based Healthcare Systems: A Deep Learning Approach with Blockchain-Based Transmission

Ahmad Raza Khan^1,*, Abdul Khader Jilani²

¹ Department of Information Technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Majmaah University, AlMajmaah, 11952, Saudi Arabia

² Department of Computer Science, University of Technology Bahrain, Bahrain

Emails: ar.khan@mu.edu.sa; a.jilani@utb.edu.bh

Abstract

The increasing adoption of cloud computing in healthcare presents immense opportunities for disease prediction, while raising critical privacy concerns. This study proposes a novel privacy-preserving scheme that leverages advanced cryptographic techniques, blockchain technology and deep learning approach within a cloud platform, to ensure secure data handling and accurate disease prediction. The proposed methodology encompasses authentication, encryption, blockchain-based transmission, and a deep learning-based heart disease prediction system (HDPS). Through rigorous authentication protocols and two-level security mechanisms, patient data is securely encrypted using RSA and Blowfish encryption before storage in the cloud. Blockchain technology facilitates secure data transmission, ensuring integrity and traceability. At the receiver end, data decryption precedes input into the HDPS, comprising artificial neural networks (ANN), convolutional neural networks (CNN), and recurrent neural networks (RNN). The HDPS incorporates data preprocessing, feature extraction, feature selection, and a deep learning-based prediction model, achieving remarkable accuracy (0.9941) in heart disease prediction. Implemented in MATLAB, this approach offers a robust framework for privacy-preserving heart disease prediction in cloud-based healthcare systems.

Keywords: Cloud Computing; Privacy-Preserving Scheme; Heart Disease Prediction; Blockchain-Based Transmission; Two-Level Security Mechanism