Hybrid recommender system for personalized healthcare: integration of content-based and collaborative filtering approaches
摘要
The increasing complexity of personalized healthcare necessitates intelligent recommendation systems capable of delivering accurate, patient-specific suggestions. However, traditional approaches such as content-based filtering and collaborative filtering often face challenges like data sparsity, cold-start problems, and limited contextual relevance. This study proposes a Hybrid Recommender System (HRS) that combines content-based and item-based collaborative filtering using a weighted fusion strategy to address these limitations. The system was evaluated using the MIMIC-III dataset with 10-fold cross-validation. Experimental results show that the proposed hybrid model achieves superior performance across all metrics, with a precision of 0.87, a recall of 0.91, and an F1 score of 0.89, outperforming Matrix Factorisation and Neighbourhood-based CF. Additionally, it achieves the lowest prediction errors, with MAE and RMSE reduced to 0.145 and 0.230, respectively, in 10-fold validation. These results confirm the model’s robustness, stability, and potential for real-world clinical deployment in personalized healthcare environments.