18 Machine Learning in the Healthcare Sector and the Biomedical Big Data Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

Tanvir Habib Sardar, Amina Khatun, Souvik Sengupta, Yusuf Alam, and Tabassum Ara

DOI: 10.1201/9781032634050-18

18.1 Introduction

Imagine a society where medical diagnostic and decisions, either drafted by a medical doctor or intern of medicine, are in time checked by a board of field specialists and the board identifies the inaccurate or slightly misjudged diagnoses and prescribes the proper guidance. Suppose a newly identified patient of blood sugar gets the proper food chart along with medicines that were not earlier known to many of the prescribers [1,2]. The overdose of medicines, their side effects, and wrong prescription ...

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