Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI)
Vol 14, No 2: June 2026

Building a brain cancer treatment hospital recommendation system in Vietnam

Truong Ho-Viet Phan (Faculty of Information Technology, School of Technology, Van Lang University)
Anh Nhat Lam (Faculty of Information Technology, School of Technology, Van Lang University)
Bao The Phung (Faculty of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, University of Industry and Trade, Vietnam)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2026

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to suggest an integrated system that combines the classification of medical images and a recommendation model for the choice of the best hospitals for cancer treatment according to the analysis of the brain MRI. For the classification of brain MRI images for tumor detection, we used EfficientNet-B3 as the base model. To evaluate its performance, we contrasted it with two other popular deep learning architectures, namely Vision Transformer (ViT) and ResNet101. Having identified malignancies by image classification, we used the outputs as inputs for a collaborative filtering based recommendation system. This system was constructed utilizing neural network embeddings and hidden vectors to learn the correlations between tumor types and hospital treatment characteristics. Personalized hospital suggestions were generated by calculating the similarity between the embeddings using the dot product. In addition, comparison evaluations with a traditional K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) method are performed to evaluate the performance gaps. The classification results revealed that EfficientNet-B3 has better accuracy when compared with ViT and ResNet101 and it is a good choice for medical picture analysis. The neural collaborative filtering model shows superior accuracy and suitability of the hospital selection during the recommendation phase compared to K-NN. The results of this study demonstrate that the combination of deep learning and intelligent recommendation systems may successfully provide excellent diagnosis in healthcare. The proposed framework may improve decision making and may provide individualized recommendations of hospitals for cancer treatment. A case study is offered in Vietnam to recommend hospitals.

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Journal Info

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IJEEI

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI) is a peer reviewed International Journal in English published four issues per year (March, June, September and December). The aim of Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI) is to publish high-quality ...