Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

 
9781605662183: Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications (Premier Reference Source)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1605662186 ISBN 13: 9781605662183
Publisher: IGI Global, 2009

Synopsis

The healthcare industry produces a constant flow of data, creating a need for deep analysis of databases through data mining tools and techniques resulting in expanded medical research, diagnosis, and treatment. Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications presents case studies on applications of various modern data mining methods in several important areas of medicine, covering classical data mining methods, elaborated approaches related to mining in electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram data, and methods related to mining in genetic data. A premier resource for those involved in data mining and medical knowledge management, this book tackles ethical issues related to cost-sensitive learning in medicine and produces theoretical contributions concerning general problems of data, information, knowledge, and ontologies.

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Publisher
IGI Global
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1605662186
ISBN 13 
9781605662183
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
467
Editor
Berka Petr, Rauch Jan, Zighed Djamel Abdelkader