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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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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Table of Contents
Sect. I Theoretical Aspects
Ch. I Data, Information and Knowledge 1
Ch. II Ontologies in the Health Field 37
Ch. III Cost-Sensitive Learning in Medicine 57
Ch. IV Classification and Prediction with Neural Networks 76
Ch. V Preprocessing Perceptrons and Multivariate Decision Limits 108
Sect. II General Applications
Ch. VI Image Registration for Biomedical Information Integration 122
Ch. VII ECG Processing 137
Ch. VIII EEG Data Mining Using PCA 161
Ch. IX Generating and Verifying Risk Prediction Models Using Data Mining 181
Ch. X Management of Medical Website Quality Labels via Web Mining 206
Ch. XI Two Case-Based Systems for Explaining Exceptions in Medicine 227
Sect. III Specific Cases
Ch. XII Discovering Knowledge from Local Patterns in SAGE Data 251
Ch. XIII Gene Expression Mining Guided by Background Knowledge 268
Ch. XIV Mining Tinnitus Database for Knowledge 293
Ch. XV Gaussian-Stacking Multiclassifiers for Human Embryo Selection 307
Ch. XVI Mining Tuberculosis Data 332
Ch. XVII Knowledge-Based Induction of Clinical Prediction Rules 350
Ch. XVIII Data Mining in Atherosclerosis Risk Factor Data 376
Compilation of References 398
Index 437