Application of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Medical Databases

Abstract

While technical improvements in the form of computer-based healthcare information applications as well as hardware are enabling collecting of and access to healthcare data wieldier. In this context, there are tools to analyse and examine this medical data once it has been acquired and saved. Analysis of documented medical data records may help in the identification of hidden features and patterns that could significantly increase our understanding of disease onset and treatment therapies. Significantly, the progress in information and communications technologies (ICT) has outpaced our capacity to assess summarise, and extract insight from the data. Today, database management system has equipped us with the fundamental tools for the effective storage as well as lookup of massive data sets, but the topic of how to allow human beings to interpret and analyse huge data remains a challenging and unsolved challenge. So, sophisticated methods for automated data mining and knowledge discovery are required to deal with large data. In this study, an effort was made employing machine learning approach to acquire knowledge that will aid various personnel in taking decisions that will guarantee that the sustainability objectives on Health is achieved. Finally, the present data mining methodologies with data mining methods and also its deployment tools that are more helpful for healthcare services are addressed in depth.