An explainable multi-head attention network for healthcare IoT threat detection based on the MedDefender-MHAN framework

Ali Alqazzaz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0346677

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An explainable multi-head attention network for healthcare IoT threat detection based on the MedDefender-MHAN framework

Ali Alqazzaz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: aqzaz@ub.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Information Systems and Cybersecurity, College of Computing and Information Technology, University of Bisha, Bisha, Saudi Arabia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7721-0450

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An explainable multi-head attention network for healthcare IoT threat detection based on the MedDefender-MHAN framework

Ali Alqazzaz

Published: April 17, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346677

About the Authors

Ali Alqazzaz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: aqzaz@ub.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Information Systems and Cybersecurity, College of Computing and Information Technology, University of Bisha, Bisha, Saudi Arabia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7721-0450

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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