
Frontiers in Digital Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 7
Опубликована: Март 27, 2025
Background Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) remains a critical global health challenge, necessitating robust predictive models to enable early detection and personalized interventions. This study presents comprehensive bibliometric systematic review of 33 years (1991-2024) research on machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) applications in T2DM prediction. It highlights the growing complexity field identifies key trends, methodologies, gaps. Methods A methodology guided literature selection process, starting with keyword identification using Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) expert input. Based these refined keywords, was systematically selected PRISMA guidelines, resulting dataset 2,351 articles from Web Science Scopus databases. Bibliometric analysis performed entire tools such as VOSviewer Bibliometrix, enabling thematic clustering, co-citation analysis, network visualization. To assess most impactful literature, dual-criteria combining relevance impact scores applied. Articles were qualitatively assessed their alignment prediction four-point scale quantitatively evaluated based citation metrics normalized within subject, journal, publication year. scoring above predefined threshold for detailed review. The spans four time periods: 1991–2000, 2001–2010, 2011–2020, 2021–2024. Results findings reveal exponential growth publications since 2010, USA UK leading contributions, followed by emerging players like Singapore India. Key clusters include foundational ML techniques, epidemiological forecasting, modelling, clinical applications. Ensemble methods (e.g., Random Forest, Gradient Boosting) deep Convolutional Neural Networks) dominate recent advancements. Literature reveals that, studies primarily used demographic variables, while efforts integrate genetic, lifestyle, environmental predictors. Additionally, advances integrating real-world datasets, trends federated learning, explainability SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) LIME (Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations). Conclusion Future work should address gaps generalizability, interdisciplinary research, psychosocial integration, also focusing clinically actionable solutions applicability combat diabetes epidemic effectively.
Язык: Английский