Mining comorbidities: a brief survey

Abstract

In this manuscript we will present a brief overview of the comorbidity concept. We will start by laying its foundations and its definitions and then describing the role that machine learning can hold in mining and defining it. The purpose of this short survey is to present a brief overview of the definition of comorbidity as a concept, and showing some of the latest applications and potentialities for the application of natural language processing and text mining techniques.