Survey on Recommender Systems for Biomedical Items in Life and Health Sciences

Abstract

The generation of biomedical data is of such magnitude that its retrieval and analysis have posed several challenges. A survey of recommender system (RS) approaches in biomedical fields is provided in this analysis, along with a discussion of existing challenges related to large-scale biomedical information retrieval systems. We collect original studies, identify entities and models, and discuss how knowledge graphs (KGs) can improve results. As a result, most of the papers used model-based collaborative filtering algorithms, most of the available datasets did not follow the standard format < user, item, rating >, and regarding qualitative evaluations of RSs use mainly classification metrics. Finally, we have assembled and coded a unique dataset of 60 papers - Sur-RS4BioT, available for download at DOI:10.34740/kaggle/ds/2346894