Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781605662183)

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.

Author: Petr Berka
ISBN-10: 1605662186
ISBN-13: 9781605662183
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2009
Pages: 466
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.48lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.70w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2009 pg. 73