Analysis of a Hybrid DNN–BiLSTM Framework for Longitudinal Prediction of Lung Disease Recurrence Using Clinical Data
Predicting lung disease recurrence from longitudinal clinical data remains challenging because irregular temporal patterns and heterogeneous patient characteristics reduce the effectiveness of conventional deep learning models. This study analyzes a hybrid Deep Neural Network (DNN)–Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) framework for the longitudinal prediction of lung disease recurrence using clinical data collected between 2021 and 2024 from a referral hospital in Gorontalo. The dataset includes demographic information, laboratory examination results, clinical diagnoses, and longitudinal medical records. Lung disease recurrence is defined as the reappearance or worsening of the disease during longitudinal clinical follow-up after the initial diagnosis or treatment. The proposed framework combines DNN to learn complex nonlinear relationships among multivariate clinical features and BiLSTM …