JOURNAL ARTICLE

A survey on Data Mining approaches for Healthcare

Divya TomarSonali Agarwal

Year: 2013 Journal:   International Journal of Bio-Science and Bio-Technology Vol: 5 (5)Pages: 241-266

Abstract

Data Mining is one of the most motivating area of research that is become increasingly popular in health organization.Data Mining plays an important role for uncovering new trends in healthcare organization which in turn helpful for all the parties associated with this field.This survey explores the utility of various Data Mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association, regression in health domain.In this paper, we present a brief introduction of these techniques and their advantages and disadvantages.This survey also highlights applications, challenges and future issues of Data Mining in healthcare.Recommendation regarding the suitable choice of available Data Mining technique is also discussed in this paper.

Keywords:
Health care Data science Survey data collection Computer science Data mining Statistics Political science Mathematics

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Topics

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Health Sciences →  Health Professions →  Health Information Management
Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Information Systems
Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
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