Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15780, Greece.
School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15780, Greece.
Comput Biol Med. 2024 Mar;170:108036. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108036. Epub 2024 Jan 28.
Over the past five years, interest in the literature regarding the security of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has increased. Due to the enhanced interconnectedness of IoMT devices, their susceptibility to cyber-attacks has proportionally escalated. Motivated by the promising potential of AI-related technologies to improve certain cybersecurity measures, we present a comprehensive review of this emerging field. In this review, we attempt to bridge the corresponding literature gap regarding modern cybersecurity technologies that deploy AI techniques to improve their performance and compensate for security and privacy vulnerabilities. In this direction, we have systematically gathered and classified the extensive research on this topic. Our findings highlight the fact that the integration of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques improves both the performance of cybersecurity measures and their speed, reliability, and effectiveness. This may be proven to be useful for improving the security and privacy of IoMT devices. Furthermore, by considering the numerous advantages of AI technologies as opposed to their core cybersecurity counterparts, including blockchain, anomaly detection, homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, federated learning, and so on, we provide a structured overview of the current scientific trends. We conclude with considerations for future research, emphasizing the promising potential of AI-driven cybersecurity in the IoMT landscape, especially in patient data protection and in data-driven healthcare.
在过去的五年中,人们对医疗物联网(IoMT)安全性相关文献的兴趣日益增加。由于 IoMT 设备的互联性增强,其受到网络攻击的风险也相应增加。受人工智能(AI)相关技术在提高某些网络安全措施方面的巨大潜力的推动,我们对这一新兴领域进行了全面的回顾。在本次综述中,我们尝试填补了现代网络安全技术相关文献的空白,这些技术运用 AI 技术来提高其性能并弥补安全和隐私漏洞。为此,我们对这一主题进行了系统地收集和分类。我们的研究结果表明,机器学习(ML)和深度学习(DL)技术的融合可以提高网络安全措施的性能及其速度、可靠性和有效性。这可能有助于提高 IoMT 设备的安全性和隐私性。此外,通过考虑到 AI 技术相对于其核心网络安全技术(包括区块链、异常检测、同态加密、差分隐私、联邦学习等)的诸多优势,我们提供了当前科学趋势的结构化概述。最后,我们对未来的研究进行了思考,强调了 AI 驱动的网络安全在 IoMT 领域中的广阔前景,特别是在患者数据保护和数据驱动的医疗保健方面。