Research Papers
The impact of data mining techniques on medical diagnostics
Authors:
Siri Krishan Wasan ,
Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India., IN
Vasudha Bhatnagar,
Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, IN
Harleen Kaur
Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, IN
Abstract
Medical data mining has great potential for exploring the hidden patterns in the data sets of the medical domain. These patterns can be utilized for clinical diagnosis. However, the available raw medical data are widely distributed, heterogeneous in nature, and voluminous. These data need to be collected in an organized form. This collected data can be then integrated to form a hospital information system. Data mining technology provides a user-oriented approach to novel and hidden patterns in the data. Data mining and statistics both strive towards discovering patterns and structures in data. Statistics deals with heterogeneous numbers only, whereas data mining deals with heterogeneous fields. We identify a few areas of healthcare where these techniques can be applied to healthcare databases for knowledge discovery. In this paper we briefly examine the impact of data mining techniques, including artificial neural networks, on medical diagnostics.
How to Cite:
Wasan, S.K., Bhatnagar, V. and Kaur, H., 2006. The impact of data mining techniques on medical diagnostics. Data Science Journal, 5, pp.119–126. DOI: http://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.5.119
Published on
28 Nov 2006.
Peer Reviewed
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