Chapter 17
Medical Data Mining
Mertik Matej
Faculty of information study Novo mesto, Slovenia
Palfy Miroslav
University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia
17.1 Background
The successful application of data mining in highly visible fields like e-business, marketing and retail have led to the popularity of its use in knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) in other industries and sectors. Among sectors that are just discovering data mining are the fields of medicine and public health. Applying data mining in the medical field is a very challenging process due to the idiosyncrasies of the medical profession. [1] cites several inherent conflicts between the traditional methodologies of data mining approaches and medicine. Those inherent conflicts refer ...
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