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Testing quantum methods for healthcare AI.

Explore Masud Rabbani’s research comparing quantum and classical machine learning for physiological estimation, chronic-disease prediction, retinal biomarkers, and medical imaging.

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Research overview

Quantum Machine Learning for Healthcare

My quantum-machine-learning research asks where emerging quantum methods can be evaluated meaningfully in healthcare—and where conventional machine learning remains the stronger reference. The work includes comparative studies of chronic kidney disease and heart-disease prediction, non-invasive glucose and HbA1c estimation, retinal-image biomarkers, and camera-agnostic optical coherence tomography generation. Across these studies, the emphasis is comparative evidence: carefully prepare the data, select features, evaluate quantum and classical alternatives, and report the experimental boundary rather than assuming a quantum advantage.

Empirical studies examine quantum support vector machines, quantum neural networks, and classical baselines in hybrid computing environments. The glucose and HbA1c work connects quantum learning with smartphone-derived photoplethysmography features. Kidney- and heart-disease studies compare prediction performance using public clinical or vital-sign data. Imaging research broadens the program: a systematic review considers the eye as a biomarker for ocular and systemic conditions, while a causal-inference quantum transfer model investigates generation of camera-agnostic OCT images from fundus photographs. A book chapter explores longer-term possibilities for quantum sensing, encryption, and mental-health monitoring in smart healthcare.

These publications span experiments, reviews, and forward-looking concepts, so their claims require different levels of caution. Performance on a selected dataset does not establish clinical utility, hardware efficiency, or general advantage. The research program therefore treats reproducibility, classical benchmarks, dataset scope, computational cost, and external validation as central questions. Its contribution is a documented path for testing quantum healthcare AI against concrete tasks while keeping emerging potential separate from established practice.

My contribution

How I contributed to this research program.

I contribute as a coauthor to studies that test quantum and classical machine-learning methods on defined healthcare tasks rather than assuming a quantum advantage. The published experiments cover fingertip-video-derived PPG for glucose and HbA1c estimation, public chronic-kidney-disease data, and vital-sign-based heart-disease prediction, with each paper documenting its preprocessing, feature selection, models, and evaluation boundary.

My coauthored imaging work extends this program to retinal biomarkers and fundus-to-OCT generation. I describe these results as task-specific experiments or reviews: performance on one dataset does not establish clinical readiness, hardware efficiency, or a general quantum advantage.

Key findings

Evidence from the published studies.

Each result links to its complete publication record, abstract, authors, affiliations, and publisher source.

Glucose and HbA1c estimation

From 136 participants’ ten-second fingertip videos, the study extracted 45 PPG features. QSVM achieved 89.30% accuracy for glucose and 96.30% for HbA1c, with 92.50% cross-validation for both.

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Chronic-kidney-disease comparison

On the UCI CKD dataset, QSVM achieved 95% accuracy, 94.5% cross-validation, and 0.987 ROC-AUC; classical SVM achieved 92.5%, 93.9%, and 0.974 respectively.

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Heart-disease comparison

In the heart-disease experiment, QSVM was the strongest of four evaluated models, with 75% accuracy and an 80% ten-fold cross-validation score.

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Questions

The problems guiding this research.

A defensible comparison

Under the same preprocessing, feature set, split, and evaluation measures, when does a quantum or hybrid model perform differently from a strong classical baseline?

Useful representation

Which physiological, clinical, or imaging features can be encoded without losing the information needed for a fair and interpretable healthcare experiment?

Evidence beyond one dataset

Do reported results remain stable across repeated runs, external cohorts, different hardware assumptions, and clinically meaningful validation settings?

Research method

From a measurable signal to a defensible result.

  1. Define the benchmark

    Start with a clear healthcare task, documented dataset, appropriate outcomes, and competitive classical models that establish a meaningful reference.

  2. Prepare and encode

    Apply transparent preprocessing and feature selection, then document how data are represented for classical, quantum, and hybrid workflows.

  3. Compare repeatedly

    Evaluate multiple runs and relevant measures while reporting data splits, computational constraints, and uncertainty around observed differences.

  4. State the boundary

    Separate experimental performance from clinical utility, hardware scalability, and any claim of general quantum advantage.

Selected scholarship

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All publications

Conference paper · 2024

A Comparative Study of Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Heart Disease Prediction Using Patients' Vital Signs

Paramita Basak Upama, Parama Sridevi, Masud Rabbani, Mohammad Syam, Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar, Md. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal, Rumi Ahmed Khan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. “A Comparative Study of Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Heart Disease Prediction Using Patients' Vital Signs”. 2024 IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 1835–1840. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC61105.2024.00290.

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Journal article · 2025

A Systematic Review on Eye as a Biomarker and an Application of Quantum Neural Network

Sakifa Aktar, Md Martuza Ahamad, Masud Rabbani, Shiyu Tian, Md Raihan Mia, Fariha Tabassum, Mari Ogino, Baseer Ahmad, Iysa Iqbal, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. “A Systematic Review on Eye as a Biomarker and an Application of Quantum Neural Network”. Cureus Journal of Computer Science, 2(1), es44389-025-03800-4. (2025). https://doi.org/10.7759/s44389-025-03800-4.

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Book chapter · 2025

Quantum computing for smart healthcare

Padmapriya Velupillai Meikandan, Paramita Basak Upama, Masud Rabbani, Md Martuza Ahamad, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. “Quantum computing for smart healthcare”. Sensor Networks for Smart Hospitals, 525–534. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-36370-2.00025-6.

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Responsible translation

Promising research still needs careful validation.

Quantum machine learning for healthcare remains an emerging research area. The immediate value of this work is rigorous comparison and clearer experimental evidence, not a claim that quantum systems are ready to replace established clinical or computational methods.

Progress toward practical use requires reproducible pipelines, independent replication, larger and more representative data, resource-aware comparisons, privacy protection, and prospective evaluation against outcomes that matter in care.

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